James Lindsay Quotes (17 Quotes)

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

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.

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

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,

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

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.

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

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.

Should Gore win November's election, I have no idea how he is going to argue that he has the public behind him on the foreign policy he wants to enact, ... I think George Bush is going to have a bigger problem in that he is an internationalist, but is campaigning as an isolationist.

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

Christians aren't really thrilled with 'The Life of Brian' but they don't go and shoot Terry Jones and Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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

We were surprised that the company was not in a position to comment on a dividend policy or pay a final dividend. We would have preferred a policy statement even if it was conservative in nature.

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 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.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.