John Olson Quotes (18 Quotes)

The thing I like is theres as much bad criticism as there is good,

They win on the income statement. They win on the balance sheet. And they win on the cash flow statement.

Theres nothing worse than over-intellectualized art.

We're shooting to begin surfacing in May 2006, ... Most construction should be complete by the end of 2006.

In an all-too-common scenario, Gtess was making do with manual intervention between silos of automation. People were checking batches and moving things into the next step in the process, ... With BPM, we've added intelligence and automation from beginning to end, so instead of monitoring and moving work around all the way through the process, our analysts are now just managing the queues.

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the 50s. At 4 a.m.

It would be nice to give it more thought, ... but I understand the need to get cracking and not let the perfect be the enemy of the possible.

Looking at a number of forecasters out there in the gas marketing community, the price of gas is expected to drop...to about 4.80 by August and then recover to about the 8 area by January.

Candy's views on matters of public policy are something that I never try to influence, ... The notion that her decisions could be influenced by matters that affect my law firm is off the charts.

It's basically silly season up there. In essence, as long as the United States is such a tremendously energy-intensive country, as long as China, India and the like are clawing their way up the consumption curve, we're going to have tight markets.

I've seen some of those cases tried from time to time, and they take many months -- often years -- to investigate.

We thought, O.K., well just have Nate Young come on after the U.I. set and jam with us, ... We just decided, this is retarded well put it under one umbrella just for the convenience of it.

Rather, at the time, it seemed that all Merchant Energy companies were sucked down by the Enron undertow.

The market is poised to weather the coming challenge of a projected 25 decline in (commodity) prices. How much the market discounts into the future remains to be seen. I'm telling you in the next five months gas prices might fall as much as 25, according to some seasoned industry observers...and then recover smartly. The stock market is fickle. It probably is heading into a little heavier weather in April and May before it begins to look at the coming heating season and look at the coming (commodity) price recovery instead of the price decline.

My whole business has been subjected to a meltdown,

Even in Lansing, there were gigs happening almost every night.

The board cannot be expected to surrender its authority to another branch of government there is a fundamental issue of separation of powers here.

They could, I suppose, put in some mandatory penalties that would up the ante. But increasing penalties does not necessarily increase prosecutions. It may make them harder -- tougher penalties could make judges more cautious and raise more grounds for appeal.