David Robertson Quotes (24 Quotes)

It's unexpected revenue, because people are just doing what they were always doing. It's not like a whole new market opened up. There's no behavioral change. It's just more money.

One of the principal differences between the work that I have done at other places, either as a guest conductor or as a music director, and that of St. Louis is that I feel the biggest potential we have here is that we play the music with the type of emotional understanding that few other orchestras match. So while we're trying to come as close to technical perfection as human beings can, what we're really working on is trying to get the raison d'etre , the reason for being, of that music.

And it was perfect The new opening kicked it off just in the right way. The voicing of the instruments was perfect. It was an orchestration that could not have been better. All of this just from someone who said, 'This opening is not the sound that I really want to have, so I'm going to add this in to make sure that it's right.' This is the type of thing that's constant when you're working with Wayne--this striving after something that's out there that he's going to be able to bring in and make available to us.

the most gifted of the new generation of American conductors.

We are very much in listening mode and we are keen to hear what people think of these proposals.

This is an idea that's been popping up around the globe. There's a lot of fee income going to the banks, and the merchants are upset.

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.

Today's Main Street is missing places where parents can bring their children, not just come to drink and dine and stroll around. There's not the variety or the cultural development. It's almost exclusively student-oriented. The city is ignoring the needs of longtime residents.

He was sent off for foul and abusive language to a linesman. That is totally unacceptable.

This is what we have been telling people all along, ... We have a generation that has grown up on video games and now they have a chance to win money at it.

Rewards are going to become more lucrative. They'll need to make their rewards beneficial and easily obtainable since they know the other guys are going to be offering the best reward package that they can muster.

The loss of the State Theater was the loss of a historic landmark, a cultural center, and a business destination that brought people down from Wilmington and all over the county.

You're going to find people around the margins that get stuck when they find themselves having to make bigger payments.

When they bet on the wrong person and lose, they do lose a little clout. If you're going to use your political capital that way, you better win. If you lose, you can pay dearly.

the real relationship to actually be in St. Louis and start to really make the music with people.

The definition of big-time changed over the last five years and not even a retailer as big as Sears was big enough to own its own (credit card) business.

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

Remember the 'Christmas Story' movie You can shoot your eye out

Wachovia and Bank of America compete head-to-head for deposit account customers in critically important states. It's simply untenable for Wachovia to continue to cede the credit card account relationship to Bank of America once that company takes over MBNA.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ... It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society -- and that's the young and the poor.

Come January first, you're going to see that your minimum monthly payment has increased. Your household's cash flow will diminish. That's the bad news. The good news is that at least you're paying down what you owe.

It's still very early, I can't answer whether it's suspicious or death by misadventure.

It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

This technology has been around for six years and has never caught on, despite all that we hear about compromising data centers and stealing key consumer information. Americans, by and large, are trustful of buying online.