Bob Turner Quotations

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Give me a break. This is not a low-grade fuel.

If anything has changed, the market has become increasingly volatile. I've got two stocks up 19.5 percent and one stock down 21 percent ... A few years ago, I would have panicked at that. Now, it's a normal day at the office.

It came close, but the levees are holding,

We don't have to go out for competitive bids on engineering contracts, ... We certainly still have to take a request for proposals or request for qualifications, regardless of the amount if it's over $10,000.

We have 22 expatriates in the country, and we'll go down to a core staff of less than 10.

We're very bullish, ... Growth stocks will continue to shine.

Once you get it going, there's no comparison. It's a sweet, sweet fuel.

You're looking at a very modest premium to its growth rate,

This is one of the great landmarks in our whole system. It's almost hallowed ground.

They're nicely positioned relative to some of the companies that are struggling much more, such as Lucent, Nortel and Alcatel, ... So they stand to pick up some share gains there as well. As the economy stabilizes and improves and those end markets begin to improve also, Cisco is terrifically well positioned to take advantage of that.

I've had three dogs that I've busted sniffing my tailpipe. ... You won't find that with a regular diesel truck.

At this stage, certainly consumer staple companies have been the big winners,

All of a sudden there's a big stimulus to the economy - interest rates are down, money supply has grown and oil prices are lower, ... From a macro perspective, the evidence states that the economy will recover, perhaps as early as the first quarter of next year.

The current A.M.D. offer on chips is just better. What they offer is a microprocessor integrated with memory that is better than Intel's. They really got it right this time.

The city's involvement is only that we're holding the check, ... We're in the business of finding contractors so that's what we're doing - Texas College will make the selection.