John Grace Quotations

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

Ricky's a cool, calm quarterback and he's not going to worry about the pressure,

He was an incredible friend, had an incredible work ethic and was an incredible person all around. This is just unbelievable.

There is an area in Dublin called Temple Bar which is a strip of bars and restaurants in a very tight area. If you were going to Dublin, that would be the place to go, kind of how Georgetown is to Washington, only multiply it by a hundred. You can walk down Temple Bar at 11 a.m. and the bars would be full.

Overall, we're a good team and it's time for individuals to make plays, ... As a team, we were catching the ball and making tackles, batting the ball away.

You can fit 15 to 20 people in the room. We have had players from the Washington Nationals and the Washington Redskins and other high rollers in this room, but anyone can enjoy it, you just have to have the money to rent.

Turnovers don't always happen when the ball hits the ground, sometimes it's just a matter of getting the other team's offence off the field,

We like the company, and like its assets, and like the opportunities in front of it.

We see the participants in the Australian health care market continuing to do very strongly,

Down the road we would also like to do a live feed with some of the bars in Ireland on our big screens.

Cochlear has world-class technology and with the new management in there they are delivering on that potential. The turnaround under Chris Roberts has been very strong.

As long as you come in with a nice pair of shoes, pants and a collared shirt, you are good to go.

It's a large capitalization company and these sorts of volumes in a large cap don't come along often. It was extremely well marketed to big players who wanted volume in a large IPO.

Daniel had amazing grit. He always knew - and did - what he had to do to make it work.

The bar lights up and can turn red, green, blue, you name it. So if you are sipping a Cosmo, bang, the bar will turn red, an apple martini, bang, turns green.

The Australian private health-care market is attractive for anybody wanting to come in and buy market share.

So far, it has been huge for us. We have one of our guys train people to line dance and we have half price steak nights the same night. So people can come, enjoy dinner and then stay for dancing.

The issue of smoking bans and taxes have been around for a while and now the company is confirming its impact on profit.

If you strip out the growth in internet, the rest of the business was pretty flat, in line with expectations.

The growth in earnings should really start to motor ahead of the rest of the market. They really are only just starting to convert the gain in ratings share into revenue share and that will drive profit margin improvement.