23 Quotes by James Sullivan

We do not believe the apparent weakness in the fourth quarter represents a clear change in the trend.

Those factors caution against extrapolating the third-quarter surge.

You look at this floor and you see a striking polarity. It's the market--people who say they want fuel economy and others who say they want power. We try to give them both.

We expect the net result will be a report that looks neither especially strong nor weak.

The bottom line is housing is not plunging and it's not soaring, ... There are signs that housing is peaking, but there is no evidence that housing is weakening sharply.

At best, it's going to eat into their own sales. People are going out later, and you don't tend to drink Guinness late at night. It's hard to imagine something so similar to Guinness changing that.

It was fun seeing different people and their reactions.

It's not 100 percent clear where housing really is, ... But the weight of the evidence is that it's not as strong as this number on new home sales implies.

The numbers are continuing to signal strength in manufacturing. Inventories are lean, and so if anything, that's going to add to growth for the next several months.