Jim Griffin Quotes (11 Quotes)

It was a consultation. It shows that Todd was seeking the advice of a medical doctor, and that's all it shows.

It's just pure uncertainty. I just sit and try to synthesize all the news I get, putting a certain amount of uncertainty on the quality of the news. It appears to me that Bush has made up his mind to go into Iraq. The question is whether that turns out to have been a good idea once it's done. If it is, then that will be positive. If it's not, if we end up having a tiger by the tail in Baghdad, that's a different story.

Expectations were set quite high. Everybody had their fingers crossed that this was going to be even more surgical and swift than last time, and last time was absolutely astonishing.

It's a computer. It's not a poker machine.

After three years of everything not working, you end up not quite trusting your models. All of a sudden the tires get traction, and you start screeching down the road.

The industry needs to switch to actuarial accounting rather than actual accounting.

They give us that autonomy. They're very big into giving and empowering people.

We talk to kids all the time. We're always in touch with children to find what they like and what they don't like.

He and I both are assembling our defense and will be mounting a vigorous defense and look forward to trial.

All of my business life, the Fed has played defense. Now it's crossed the scrimmage line and started playing offense. It's brought us to rates so low that even multimillionaires can't live off the yield. The Fed wants you to buy bonds, buy stocks, start a business, hire some people, and it is going to continue to hammer at you until you do it.

The bottom line is that the Fed is the stock market's friend and is likely to remain friendly for quite some time.