Robert Goodman Quotations

You may find there is more volatility in the various markets in Europe,

There's no additional money coming in. You're just playing with the same money.

Now is the time to invest overseas. I have not felt this strongly about any investment opportunity since the early 1980s.

Since there are so many different environments in the soil, the likelihood of finding different organisms and different chemistries is high. The world is full of microorganisms that have learned, chemically, how to get along, how to communicate with, how to influence other animals. It might turn out that they're making chemical molecules that turn out to be useful to people.

If there's some action, it's going to depend on how we come out. If there's a swift retaliation, and it's seen as successful, it could make people feel good, spur celebrating and give us a lift.

That act on Sept. 11 made all economic numbers coming out useless in terms of trying to determine an overall trend in economy. More important are the policies that are going to affect future statistics, and they are good.

Because there was such a sharp drop, the snap-back is going to be that much more violent on the upside.

The story of Sept. 11 is the tremendous resilience of the U.S. economy. We took a shot, a real shot, and came back. It shows you the power of this system.

What you have now is corporations trying to manage expectations with the intent later this year and certainly early next year of beating those expectations, ... So this market is really getting set up for a major change in perception once we begin to see some kind of economic pickup.

Investors have to train themselves to look forward and when they do that a whole different picture emerges,