Ben Pierce Quotations

Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation, and knowing that we had to leave our rooms. I had gotten here earlier in the afternoon (on Sunday) and while I was told about the problems with the Nest and was present for the outages, I was not aware that we were going to be moved.

I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It would have been nice if they had told us that.

What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to give highly-appreciated securities to the program. A lot of this giving is to very targeted, local charities. It's getting right back on the streets.

People tend to do much of their tax planning late in the year.

A lot of the technology stocks may be down lately, but people who have been holding good old blue chips like GE and Pfizer have substantial capital gains, and these can be very effective gifts.