Joe McGrath Quotations

We're continuing to look for groups that would be impressed that we have the largest green building in the world.

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

We have a number of customers who are enamored of our convention center. They love Pittsburgh, and they want to come here, but they won't until there is a larger concentration of hotel rooms adjacent to the convention center.

There's going to be a lot of business we still don't capture even if we do have a hotel.

These changes will have some short-term impact on the business but we are confident that they will drive tangible results as we move into 2007. While 2006 is a transition year, we remain focused on our long-term objectives, which are to fundamentally change our business, enhance profitability and attain the financial goals we set out for ourselves by 2008.

You're selling the experiences, not the destination. The results have been beyond our wildest dreams.