22 Quotes by Jeff Nobers

We're expecting between 200,000 and 225,000 people. So, the feeling is that if everyone just donates $1 we'll get at least that much.

We are hoping for at least 200,000 and those are our minimal expectations.

So far this year, we've donated in excess of $2.5 million in materials and cash to Habitat for Humanity on a national basis.

If they transfer to another store, they would be at least at the same position. In some cases, like for co-managers, it could result in a promotion to manager. There could be a few cases where they would transfer to corporate headquarters, which, of course, would be a different type of assignment from store operation.

I think we looked at it from the aspect that this would be more beneficial to the charities. They would be able to raise more money up front, and it gives us the opportunity to sell more tickets. Last year, the sales period was from March to the end of June, and charities sold 60,000 tickets. With this expanded sales time, our request for tickets is already in excess of 80,000.

We donated $15,000 in materials necessary to construct the house.

We're after Tiger Woods every year. I'm sure we'll be talking to him.

We had four that were really impacted. Right now we are focused on assessing where the stores stand and how our associates faired. We had a great many people that lived in that area and we haven't gotten a hold of everyone yet. All we know right now is that all four stores still stand with varying levels of damage.

We have a history of doing things in situations like these. And our president has made it clear that we want to talk to all of our associates, some of whom lost homes, and we will help them first before we begin assessing what role we can play overall.