41 Quotes by Delos Smith

I've been in the business 40 years...almost 40 years. I can tell you the leaks in 40 years and I won't even use all the fingers on one hand.

The whole key is whether or not (a war) ends quickly.

Probably Asia's diminishing a little bit. But I don't think that this suggests any kind of bad time or recession coming.

As long as suspense lingers, you will have a longer CNN effect. That's not what you want -- mood is very important for the retail world.

You want the consumer buoyant. Most consumers are not current-events oriented. When you get everybody involved in current events, when they usually are not, then people are not going to go out and buy things just for pleasure of it.

This is not a very pretty picture. The higher gasoline prices had more of an impact that most had expected.

A lot of people don't read newspapers, and we don't have 24 hours a day of CNN, MSNBC and Fox just pounding you with war news.

You don't want people to be cautious if you want them to buy. You want them relaxed and saying their troubles are behind them. This (employment) report doesn't suggest that.

They're getting nervous. They're getting angry. They have not really done anything about it because they want to see if there's going to be relief for it. But now they're aware of it.