22 Quotes by Stuart Miller

Even the currently cooling housing conditions will give us an opportunity to perform well into 2007. We've already seen some recovery in the traffic patterns in our major markets.

The strength of the national housing market continues to fuel our record bottom-line performance and record second-quarter sales,

Despite signs nationally of a more normalized level of activity with regards to sales pace and price appreciation, our capital investments in these strategic markets afford us a significant competitive advantage and allow us to be well positioned for future success.

This is an industry that's done business pretty much the same way for the past 100 years. Most of the funeral homes are still family-owned, so they rely on word-of-mouth or local advertising to reach their consumers. What we realize is that as geographic trends have changed for families and they no longer live in the same hometown, how would they know where to go if a loved one died?