James Lindsay Quotations

With New Zealand Dairy Foods, you would think it would have as much appeal to New Zealand investors as it would to Australians. It has good solid brands, so absolutely, barring price, it would be an attractive business.

My job is not to bring people together. My job is to teach history. History is not pleasant in many cases, and I made it very clear in class that this is America and you all have the right to offend but you do not have the right to not be offended.

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

I don't think his advisers understand how difficult it is going to be to get their way on Capitol Hill because of this,

What do you call it when you take a city - the same city - for the third time? Success or failure?

It is a surprise in timing. People were expecting a restructuring of the assets some time before the end of the year.

People are playing off the benefit of investing alongside Hart against the operations of the business, which still continue to be under quite a bit of pressure,

I think if the vice president loses this election, ... One of the questions people will ask post-mortem is: How did Al Gore forfeit the advantage he had over George Bush in foreign policy?

Those looking for more safety should look for stocks that benefit from a dollar depreciation and ones not overly exposed to the domestic cycle or that have some international presence.

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene,

When you don't campaign on foreign affairs, you don't make an issue out of it, you don't create public support, you create problems for yourself down the road politically for sustaining an argument against the Hill for doing anything overseas.

With real-life foreign policy taking front and center, Gore gets pushed off the front page,

The rivalry among Optus and Telstra in Australia for business and residential customers has been intense. Competing against two powerful and much larger scale businesses has always been difficult. This is a reflection of that being put into earnings.

They are starting to go through the process of selling the business, so that may be giving them an indication of what other people think it's worth.

The commentary on next year's earnings will disappoint but, obviously, reflects the extra interest costs and higher depreciation going forward.