Richard Evans Quotations

We're extremely pleased, obviously, with the Austin market. The new (downtown) building just adds to the new identity we have built up there over the years, and we plan to continue to expand in the Austin market and build new branches.

Some are very colorful, some are very straightforward.

May we never let the things we cant have, or dont have, or shouldnt have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. Richard L. Evans

I go to every drive-in (branch) and tell them I appreciate what they're doing, and they tell me about how we're doing.

I don't have the resources to do what Bank of America and Wells Fargo do. We've got to come over here and do our own thing and do it well and not worry about what the big boys do.

I give blood every couple months. Anything I can do. It might help some little kid.

He was taken for a big ride. He was much too trusting. He made bad choices which led to bad luck. Most tennis players of his ilk, with the exception of Roscoe Tanner who is now in jail, have gone on to become very successful millionaires.

I think it's likely that within three to six months we could have all the key elements pulled together in the form of a term sheet, which would be the key financial elements.

Most of the restructuring is behind us now.

The pressure from underneath was too much, and it was actually coming through the floors and the walls and all around inside the levy. There wasn't anything we could do then, so we just bailed out.

We definitely won't be doing that again this year. We have got extra orders in to make sure we have enough beer to go round.

With a study like this coming from someone like Topol, the debate becomes more apparent to physicians and consumers.

At some point, we expect there will be some correction from cyclical highs that we are seeing now. One reason is simply currency; the weak U.S. dollar means that everything denominated in U.S. dollars is worth more in dollars.

The motive is simple. Their strategy is to focus on core pharmaceutical business. Clearly, the drug business is more profitable.

This is not an alternative business model, this is not a brave new day. This is good old-fashioned defense. This is a defensive management of a business in decline.

A lot of the demand that the industry has created over the years has been through promotion, and for that promotion to be effective, there has to be trust. That trust has been lost.

They either need a major new product or they need a merger.

I know you don't, I know you don't.

You can potentially control what the physician writes.

All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.