David Smith Good Quotations

Business is fabulous. Everyone's in a good mood. Look around - it's packed.

You guys need to know that I will be here 24 hours a day for you to talk to. If I see you in the hall, the first thing I ask you may not be about football. It might be, how's your girlfriend, how's the family, are you keeping up with your grades? The ability to be a good role model is what helped make my decision to return to Orangeburg.

You guys have a great set of coaches here, and the foundation has been started. Berkeley may not have as good a coaches that you guys have here. They are going to be the glue that holds this foundation together.

You get to go to a nice place, and you feel like you're left with a bit of house money in your wallet, so you get the wine, the good water, the coffee. You have to have the coffee because you're going back to work after having the wine.

They are a step ahead of everybody and have very good legs. They anticipate everything you could do and seem to do it better than everyone else.

It's extremely frustrating to sit around and look at the slopes and see dry grass where typically they should be covered in white. The hope is still there that we'll still be able to have a good season, at least the latter half.

Then it looked like he swam off in the other direction and I figured everything was okay because he was a good swimmer.

The integration activities from Q4 are bearing fruit. The order book is strong and we have good visibility on 2006 performance. Our confidence in the revenue streams allows us to provide guidance on 2006 of between EUR 25 and EUR 30 million, a significant step change on 2005 pro forma revenues of EUR 17.5 million.

I'm cautiously optimistic. We have some really good sauces going up. We've been experimenting for about a month, coming up with ideas, trying them out and taste-testing them.

I have to do a good job because if the store can't trust us, then the customers can't trust the store.

All we can do is start all over. Nobody got hurt, everybody got out, none of the firemen were hurt. None of the kids ... that's a good thing.