336 Quotes About August

With the growing season coming to an end, most observers believe that the South American crop will be record large, with more uncertainty about the Argentine crop than the Brazilian crop. U.S. soybean oil stocks at the end of the most recent reporting month--January 2006--were estimated at 2.477 billion pounds, nearly 60 percent larger than stocks of a year ago. Stocks were at the highest level since August 2002.

We believe that Ford's recall of over 46,000 Explorer SUVs overseas since August 1999 undermines Ford's efforts to place responsibility on Bridgestone/Firestone in connection with the U.S. tire recall. As a result, Ford's credibility with U.S. consumers, legislators and regulators may suffer. We are thereby threatening the January 2001 launch of the new model.

Grant Park has a 10-week summer season. I don't often play the summer opera (Seattle Opera's August production), and I have no vacation time.

There were many in the media who didn't think we'd even make it to Christmas. Yes, we mismanaged the beginning of the year with our late start in August and made a number of expansion errors, if you will. But we've developed a base and we've put a seed in the ground.

The fact that the January number is back up to the higher level we saw in August 2005 indicates that the demand for labor is holding steady and seems to have weathered the hurricane and energy-related effects of last fall. The January online help-wanted ad volume is consistent with what we are seeing from the Consumer Confidence Survey. In January, consumers were more upbeat about current economic conditions, and they were especially more positive about the job market.

When I visit Tibet next August I hope he and the Dalai Lama will be there to greet me,

It is possible that the hurricanes that hit in August and September had a bigger impact on measured GDP growth in the fourth quarter than in the third. ... The hurricanes probably dragged on investment, too.

I think it's going to continue to be a sideways market in August and into September. Seasonally, there's the tendency for selling, but as of now, there aren't any big events on tap that could take us a lot higher or a lot lower.

August is one of our hottest months. This is not really a heat wave. It's just typical for summer.