Brian Reynolds Quotations

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

What makes Jakub so special is that he combines tremendous natural talent with a very disciplined work effort every day.

We're looking for signs that it won't continue, but right now I'm not seeing signs of that. The rises in corporate issuance coincides with strength in the market as investors realized the corporate bond market wouldn't let them down.

Way too many people have been saying this. I'm even getting people asking if the Fed is buying stocks, which is just too weird.

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

When you can break nine of our records, that shows you there were a lot of great efforts.

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

If these things had not been done, it would have been a big negative because they have to lower their cost structure to be competitive.

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

For me to get worried about the stock market, you have to show me signs that corporate bonds are getting weak and all this debt coming due isn't going to be rolled over. If you can't roll the debt over, you have to start valuing stocks on an asset basis. If you can roll it over, you have to start valuing it on an operating earnings basis. There's a huge difference in price between those two.

If the economy turns down, ... then junk is overvalued and the people buying it are going to get hurt.

I thought both of our teams did an awesome job this week.

Most schools use (similar trips) as a recruiting tool. It's nothing they're not accustomed to hearing from other schools.

We had some incredible swims by a lot of kids. We had some fantastic performances combined with several very solid ones.

Bonds in the airline sector have been priced with bankruptcy as a real possibility since the spring, so an actual filing shouldn't really have an impact on the market,

Everyone was reaching for yield. When the Fed first tightened, people were surprised as heck.

The training and effort we get in Hawaii yields tremendous swims in March at the (NCAA Division II) national championships. And since that is basically our entire season, we've elected to move towards that environment.

As long as issuance remains strong, and there's no sign that it won't, that's a positive for the financials.

A lot of bears feel the only reason stocks are up is because the Fed is pumping money into the system.

It's a transition period now. We're a constantly changing organism that is attempting to be a blessing to the community. The church is not pushing businesses out.

These numbers, they're OK. They're a little better than expected. It's like a drop in the ocean.

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'