Jim Griffin Quotations

We're more than prepared to defend it, and it didn't catch us by surprise.

Bush wants the economy to be in vibrant shape by then. He's not going to be able to say that a recalcitrant Democratic-controlled Senate screwed this up, after all.

The aircraft really is too badly damaged to do a complete restoration. (And) people really want to see it the way it appeared in the lake.

We're unaware of a competitor that is offering a similar product.

Expectations were set quite high. Everybody had their fingers crossed that this was going to be even more surgical and swift than last time, and last time was absolutely astonishing.

We talk to kids all the time. We're always in touch with children to find what they like and what they don't like.

The bottom line is that the Fed is the stock market's friend and is likely to remain friendly for quite some time.

Almost half of them are designed that way.

All of my business life, the Fed has played defense. Now it's crossed the scrimmage line and started playing offense. It's brought us to rates so low that even multimillionaires can't live off the yield. The Fed wants you to buy bonds, buy stocks, start a business, hire some people, and it is going to continue to hammer at you until you do it.

They give us that autonomy. They're very big into giving and empowering people.

A big percentage of the charter high schools open are serving kids who don't really find that traditional schools fit them.

It's a computer. It's not a poker machine.

It was a consultation. It shows that Todd was seeking the advice of a medical doctor, and that's all it shows.

After three years of everything not working, you end up not quite trusting your models. All of a sudden the tires get traction, and you start screeching down the road.

He and I both are assembling our defense and will be mounting a vigorous defense and look forward to trial.

The idea is to get top-line growth going again. But if you do that as an intermediate step, or side effect you're going to pump a lot of money into financial assets.

The industry needs to switch to actuarial accounting rather than actual accounting.

The earnings could be huge. You have to believe that with all the efforts to get costs down we could be seeing a lot of positive surprises.