David Robertson Quotations

We're going to have it closed for at least this week and into the weekend.

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

sense of being absolutely creative within the rules. I tend not to think in terms of one mass of people that you unify, but rather as a field of play in which the inspiration might come from any group at any time, which then can be suddenly absorbed by the rest of the group. The reaction time feels instantaneous. You have music that none of you knew was going to be there before--and suddenly arrives.

Rewards are going to become more lucrative. They'll need to make their rewards beneficial and easily obtainable since they know the other guys are going to be offering the best reward package that they can muster.

Richard said, 'I'm not choking him, it just looks like I am choking him.

One of the principal differences between the work that I have done at other places, either as a guest conductor or as a music director, and that of St. Louis is that I feel the biggest potential we have here is that we play the music with the type of emotional understanding that few other orchestras match. So while we're trying to come as close to technical perfection as human beings can, what we're really working on is trying to get the raison d'etre , the reason for being, of that music.

He was sent off for foul and abusive language to a linesman. That is totally unacceptable.

It could come down all at once in the rain storms on Friday, who knows.

People are going to continue to repay their credit card (balances). That means checks increasingly will become a means of repayment for everything people buy on their credit cards.

Remember the 'Christmas Story' movie? You can shoot your eye out?

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.

Wachovia and Bank of America compete head-to-head for deposit account customers in critically important states. It's simply untenable for Wachovia to continue to cede the credit card account relationship to Bank of America once that company takes over MBNA.

Today's Main Street is missing places where parents can bring their children, not just come to drink and dine and stroll around. There's not the variety or the cultural development. It's almost exclusively student-oriented. The city is ignoring the needs of longtime residents.

When they bet on the wrong person and lose, they do lose a little clout. If you're going to use your political capital that way, you better win. If you lose, you can pay dearly.

We'll see how it reacts in the (weekend) storm then decide on how we re-open it to two-way or one-way traffic.

The definition of big-time changed over the last five years and not even a retailer as big as Sears was big enough to own its own (credit card) business.

the real relationship to actually be in St. Louis and start to really make the music with people.

This recognizes that MasterCard is a distant second to Visa. To get back in the game, MasterCard is going to have to buy some share.

This technology has been around for six years and has never caught on, despite all that we hear about compromising data centers and stealing key consumer information. Americans, by and large, are trustful of buying online.

We are very much in listening mode and we are keen to hear what people think of these proposals.

We are on a constant, patch on patch system that you have to keep working on to keep it up. We will get through it. We will just have more potholes next year.

the most gifted of the new generation of American conductors.

You're going to find people around the margins that get stuck when they find themselves having to make bigger payments.

This is an idea that's been popping up around the globe. There's a lot of fee income going to the banks, and the merchants are upset.

This is what we have been telling people all along, ... We have a generation that has grown up on video games and now they have a chance to win money at it.

This is the most addictive form of gambling that's even been invented. You've got a casino in your home now. You don't have to get in your car or go somewhere.

All paper-based payments are in retreat. People of a certain age don't even know where their checkbook is.

The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be.

It's unexpected revenue, because people are just doing what they were always doing. It's not like a whole new market opened up. There's no behavioral change. It's just more money.

It's still very early, I can't answer whether it's suspicious or death by misadventure.

It's yet to be proven that consumers read the fine print.

The issuers are competing in a real slugfest for customers, and the rewards programs are at the center of it,

I have over 80 sites of damage since January 1. And that storm damage has been exacerbated by continued heavy rains.

I named this place Lost Trail because people are always getting lost off the backside of Sugar Bowl or along the Pacific Crest Trail and somehow end up here.

It ends up costing the state three dollars for every dollar they collect in taxes.

Come January first, you're going to see that your minimum monthly payment has increased. Your household's cash flow will diminish. That's the bad news. The good news is that at least you're paying down what you owe.

And it was perfect! The new opening kicked it off just in the right way. The voicing of the instruments was perfect. It was an orchestration that could not have been better. All of this just from someone who said, 'This opening is not the sound that I really want to have, so I'm going to add this in to make sure that it's right.' This is the type of thing that's constant when you're working with Wayne--this striving after something that's out there that he's going to be able to bring in and make available to us.

The loss of the State Theater was the loss of a historic landmark, a cultural center, and a business destination that brought people down from Wilmington and all over the county.