80 Quotes by Paul Ballew

We're still planning on growing on the commercial business. Commercial business can be very profitable.

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars. If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.

We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars, ... If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.

We had a very challenging month. We had some pockets of strength, but once again with the number of head winds for the month, we were down.

When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs.

Monetary policy can take a year, year and a half to rifle through the economy. Vehicle sales have held up somewhat better than what people have anticipated. You try to find balance ... When all is said and done, we don't anticipate the back end of this year to be a poor back end. We just continue to try to put forth what we think is the right balance. We're cautiously optimistic.

I would describe the month as pretty good, solid ... and where we expected it to be.

I would describe it as a pretty solid year for the industry and one that is above our expectations that we had at the beginning part of the year.