John Chamberlain Quotations

Sears Canada is selling a prime asset that historically has contributed significant earnings and has reduced the volatility of consolidated earnings.

It demonstrates just how reliant Sears Canada is now on the merchandising business, because they always had the credit card business to shield the weak portion of the merchandising business.

The amazing part is how disabled they are and how independent they are,

We understand the rescue workers were able to stay in contact with the workers. They knew at least they were conscious and stable.

We, of course, are doing interior aesthetic improvement as need be but that really is planned for the following year.

We've had a renewed interest and our volume for deliveries is increasing. We deliver babies from a lot of different places.

A dollar that is spent on interest can't be spent on fixing the stores. They have to fix the business.

This is a film of John Chamberlain and his friends on acid,

They don't lose money in the first quarter, even if they might not make as much as they do in the fourth quarter.

They really know what they want out of life, which is amazing considering the culture they came from, Boulder at that time.

The retail operations have to find a way to make money at some point, and if you've got a $1.7 billion in debt, then you've got to generate some pretty good cash flow to service that debt.

Once they get into that legal position where they can start forcing conversion, it's pretty much done.

I'm surprised he won't be staying on the board. They could have used his expertise going forward.

Canadian Tire is doing brilliantly. Their big new stores are great, and they are delivering fabulous sales and are well laid out.

The company has done a good job with their big-box stores, but it's also a good example of a retailer that has done it both ways.

Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.