115 Quotes by Jim Smith

We strongly suggest that material planners anticipate an impact on lead times and factor that into appropriate buffer inventories on critical components.

The minute a politician tells people to conserve, it creates a panic. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We're in good shape. The big tanks are unusually full.

The consensus view is it is a net benefit to the country.

What we're seeing is that most of the compliant product lead times are firming up and creeping out. If the lead time was two weeks, now it's four. If it was four weeks, it's going to six or eight weeks.

If you don't get to him early, you don't get to him. His competitiveness, his desire to win (are) just tremendous. A lot of times he just threw it by them.

We felt like we played well in the second half against Fairfax. We were down 15 over there and came back and had a chance to tie it up.

I heard one part where they couldn't afford the payment of the tree because it was so much, so I figured I'd come over here and talk to the homeowner and give him my services for no cost.

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.