336 Quotes About August

When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

Sales in August were essentially on plan at Target and the Department Stores, and below expectations at Mervyn's,

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

If I was a member of Congress I'd try to press him on is there a light at the end of the tunnel on measured rate hikes, and at what point the Fed decides enough is enough. You have to think after the August move we probably are in the eighth inning, but I doubt he'll be that explicit.

Look at the world that August left us. He left us an entire world.

The Fed will probably cut rates in both August and October by 25 basis points (a quarter-percentage point) each. We really don't know what they will do beyond that.

I think spending will be pretty solid the rest of the year. The August numbers will be important due to back-to-school sales.

People are still taking vacations, traveling more this August than last August.