Bob Davis Quotes (43 Quotes)

I'll be on the road aggressively over the course of the next month, letting people understand all the details of the transaction, ... That will be an ongoing process.

Bottom line is, it was a fantastic quarter for Lycos, ... All of the key lines grew and grew very solidly. More importantly, we have an exceptional company with a great premium for our shareholders, and a great success story to build upon.

I look around at gas prices all the time, but this is the cheapest I can find. It's worth my time coming here.

Any potential shareholder looking at us today and the Terra-Lycos merger, there's a 15 spread between the implied value and the trading price of Lycos at roughly 58 a share, so the implied value is really 73. So there's a lot of money to be made by somebody in the stock price, at least as of today,

Between these two businesses, where we are weakest, Terra is strongest, and where Terra is weakest, Lycos is strongest. That provides for a number of complimentary benefits.

Democrats stand for bigger government, more spending, and higher taxes. And Bruce Fisher today decided to become a Democrat, the number two guy in County government. If Bruce Fisher believes in higher taxes, and more spending, and bigger government, then

Every one of these allegations is wrong. All this while I felt I was dealing with the mafia.

It is too premature to make a statement. We are monitoring the situation and we'll see what the developments are.

We are committed to making the tough but necessary decisions to ensure the future viability of GreenMan and continue to evaluate all viable alternatives to achieve this objective with our primary focus on our southeastern operations,

We have one shot as a community to get this bioscience thing right. I don't know how carefully other sites were evaluated, and there hasn't been a public, independent study that says this project at this location will work.

By working together, we can make timely and meaningful decisions regarding the best use of our community resources and volunteer efforts,

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

What Tucson has is demographics and geographies. We're next door to California. The commercial markets sometimes mirror the residential markets when you talk about affordability. There's a little bit of risk, but every buyer has a little bit of different risk tolerance. If you have the ability to hold an empty building for a little while, you're going to be fine.

This was a remarkable quarter for the company, probably our best ever, and I'm proud to say our 18th consecutive quarter of beating estimates,

He works very hard at everything he takes on. He has dedicated his life to mountains, mountain geography and the conservation of mountain ecosystems.

I'm not at all worried. In fact, I'm very euphoric about what I see, ... We don't have any disproportionate number of contracts coming up for renewal, no more than we would have in any other given quarter. There's really a rush to marketplace with Fortune 500 companies coming online.

This is truly something for a country boy from West Virginia,

I get nostalgic for the senior game anyway. The last game at Allen is always a toughie for us, because we're sentimental guys. I've been working on Colorado, reviewing their people, and I have to keep remembering that the game is the big story, even though we do have several sidebars this time.

There was avalanche danger, and we usually like to let it get some sun and sit. But there hasn't been enough time.

This acquisition gives us yet another top 10 Web site, ... In our business, audience is everything and there just are not that many opportunities left out there for organizations to grow rapidly. We overnight changed the landscape in the portal space.

It was total devastation. When I walked up to the church, I said 'Uh oh, this is the end.' The sanctuary was just demolished.

That may actually be investment spending. Those ad dollars that are being spent now may be a base for earnings in the future.

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

I think this whole thing was a trial by fire.

We estimate the assumption of these contracts by Tennessee Tire Recyclers and the pending closure of our Tennessee facility in September will relieve us of obligations that have negatively contributed to our operating losses over the past several years and will positively impact our overall corporate cash flow by over 150,000 per month. We anticipate the transition of assigning all contracts to be completed within 90 days and will redeploy all remaining Tennessee equipment to other locations during that timeframe.

The only concern I've got is you're falling behind on the lesser money.

Terra has come under a little bit of pressure through just the actual number of new shares that are being issued with the Lycos merger, but it seems to have a great level of stability over the last few weeks,

It would have a chilling and potentially devastating effect on home prices across the board. I just can't imagine that the support of homeownership for middle-class Americans will be abandoned, especially in the range where the proposed reduction would hit.

We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.

This coming year could be the year. Rather than just continuing to buy back stock, they could do more acquisitions, more facilities expansion or some full-time hiring.

A lot of people in Florida vacation in Florida. You can't have families (vacationing) when school is open.

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

My concern is that my best friend not be tortured and further anguished.

We focus on the conservation of the environment, as well as the economic development of the community. Those are really the keys to creating sustainability.

We've always had a focus as a company on bottom line and fiscal responsibility, ... And I think especially now in the days of Internet consolidation and I think more of a discriminating investor, it pays off very well for us.

CMGI shareholders were disappointed in the initial market reaction (to the USA proposal), and so was I, ... It's time for us to move on. Lycos is a rock-solid company, and it's time to let Lycos be Lycos.

I've lived here all my life, and I honestly don't understand this place,

The Roland team has obviously uncovered some very disturbing information on the validity of this election. Add all this up, and it doesn't spell good news for the Ford dynasty.

They were built for a different economic time. The communities that have grown up around them are different. They're at risk.

This is our first season and it's an honor to be selected to be a part of a national tournament. Our new clubhouse will be open in time for the tournament and we look forward to showing it off.

I'll say the same thing to you today I've been saying for the past year-and-a-half. There's no news. There's nothing that the company is adding today.

Younger businesses get funding and with it distribution on the Lycos Network, the investment risk and reward is shared by Lycos and our partners and, finally, Lycos puts itself in a position of strategic influence with many of the companies that are developing next generation offerings even though the outlay of our capital is minimal,

They are affordable, and people have established a nice sense of community. Obviously, the neighbors get to know each other. They have mobilized pretty quick.