168 Quotes by David Brown

Consumer sentiment and failing confidence is going to be a big blot on the growth landscape in 2003,

The people who are going to be surprised are the entrepreneurs.

It's not as many jobs as Mack, but it's a stable company, and it diversifies the industry in the county. A lot of our industry is automotive-related.

Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.

Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back down to $20 a barrel. But the economy is strong: we expect growth of about 3 percent this year and at least 3.5 percent next year.

The bias to higher rates remains intact, but will stay a threat rather than a reality until stronger recovery surfaces.

There is a multiplicity of reasons why the ECB has eased again and by so much. Critically the euro zone fundamentals have been crying out for lower rates for quite some time, with growth momentum slowing in the EMU area, Germany close to a double dip recession and inflation set to slow dramatically next year.

The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it's a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates,