Bob Schultz Quotes (15 Quotes)


    That's not including the cost of attending events or cost of getting to and from Indianapolis. And it's incredibly conservative. It doesn't take into consideration the premium on hotel rates and the additional fans who came without a ticket.

    It is incredibly important for us to have plans in hand, so we can show what type of space there will be, the design of the rooms, the visual appeal. We can shout from the highest mountaintop that we're expanding, but unless we have something to show, it's hard to sell it.

    We expect our doctors to work very hard taking care of patients, but they don't have to spend all their time and energy battling insurance companies.

    Any entity that wants to build a hotel and convention center must understand the demand nature. You don't build a church for an Easter Sunday crowd. You can be sure, before IMS officials break ground, they'll have done their due diligence.

    It's the vanilla perception. The city doesn't have the sex appeal that the coastal towns have. We need to get over that aw-shucks attitude and start bragging about the good things we have here.


    People have asked us, 'What is the secret to your success' ... It is really the subsequent private development that has followed public investment.

    The air of celebrity is so thick that the novelty may be wearing thin. I've seen them at the grocery store, I've seen them at the marina, I've seen them playing golf, ... Nobody pays attention to them anymore.

    Gen Con has quickly earned a special place in the heart of our city. We are thrilled at Gen Con's decision to become an annual event on our convention calendar and promise to meet and exceed gamers' expectations for outstanding visitor service and value in Indianapolis for years to come.

    Sixty percent of our HP Integrity server customers are running Oracle applications and databases today, making this a key capability for our existing customers.

    We have had more than 1,000 hotel rooms added since 2000, ... Inventory is definitely going up, and I feel good about our capacity.

    For something where its a leisure draw, where there's no organization working collectively, like one of our races, then it's the free market. The hotels will set those rates based on what the market will permit, and that is pure supply and demand.

    This fits into the ICVA's strategy of going after the size of events that would fit into a single hotel with convention space. We would welcome the opportunity to work with the IMS on sales and marketing.

    Indianapolis has this international reputation of being the best city to host an event like this.

    Groups are now booking across the nation into 2010 through 2012. We don't want to miss that booking cycle and the longer we wait for plans, the more complex the selling effort becomes.

    We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission. Working with Stanford and NASA, we formed a powerful team to develop the challenging technologies needed to take a giant step forward in helping understand Einstein's theory of general relativity.


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