Bob Schmidt Quotations

We're still in search-and-rescue mode. We're in the saving life and limb thought process.

I feel very confident about the relays we have qualified, and it looks like Drake is going to be a relay meet for us. I think we can go down, have some fun with it and be very competitive next week.

I don't understand how people can get nervous. The market washes itself on a continual basis It's correcting itself all the time.

From the city's standpoint, there's really nothing we can do about it. I don't know of anything we can do to forbid this type of activity. It's kind of out of our control.

It boils down to education, and what better place to start than young adults? They have more of a virgin mind-set to the process and no preconceived notions.

I was very pleased to be involved in making that happen.

You buy a stock because it's a good industry, it's a good company, it has a good product.

We're not even getting the $10-an-hour jobs. We're still putting an emphasis on retail stores. They don't provide living wages for families.

We had a big growth in membership in the past two years and we continue to run training classes for 23 to 30 new agents a month.

We are using the other units in the building as income properties to support the cost of the new building.

Safe' is a very bad word in the stock market. There is no such thing as safe. 'Smart' is a good word.

Then we grew and bought the building in front and remodeled it.

I'm very pleased with the meet. I saw a lot of competitive effort, and I saw the kids taking a lot of pride in what they were doing. I'm happy for them.

If you take a long-term view of the market, you sit there quietly and you believe that over time, (stock values) are going to be a lot higher.

He's got a lot of natural ability and a great competitive desire. I think right now he's one of the best sophomores, if not overall track athletes in the state.