22 Quotes by Richard Baum

The one thing that everybody kind of has tucked into the back of their minds is that if there is some sort of event that affects a mall between now and Christmas. It's hard to say whether another plane crash like this is going to have much of an impact yet.

So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.

Companies (retailers) are being very cautious about their guidance for the second quarter, so we're not completely taking it to heart that these (strong sales) results will carry through,

Zhao Ziyang, on the other hand, was very much at the centre of that particular storm, and thus will be harder to rehabilitate.

They shared the grievance that the government wasn't paying attention to ordinary people, that it was time to respond to the negative byproducts of economic reform. They considered the government to be arrogant, haughty and unresponsive.

They had come close to the edge of chaos and looked over, and they didn't like what they saw, ... Now they were saying that China needs time to heal its wounds, that we'll have gradual change instead.

They are coming up against a number of uncomfortable facts,

They have their planned promotions, but they have to be prepared to add some planned promotions in there if business is not happening.

It's very mixed. When you get into an environment like this, the extremes get magnified -- the good do better and the struggling do worse. It's like quicksand.