Richard Peterson Quotes (22 Quotes)

We've very excited, especially to do this two years in a row.

Next week looks kind of low, ... We're headed into the late summer, pre-Labor Day drought for deals.

With apologies to Frank Capra, it was a wonderful year for underwriting. There's no shortage of demand for money.

I moved the wrong way and I had something overhead and I felt something go in my back.

To sell it, you've got to believe in it, and we believe in it. When we go to St. Paul, or Washington, to talk to legislators about issues we care about, the more members we represent, the more confidence the legislators have that they'll have support if they respond to our views.

We're a grassroots organization, which means the Minnesota Corn Growers is run from the bottom up. Individual farmers give us direction, but in order for that to happen we have to have a strong membership-strong in numbers and strong in feeling connected to the important work we're doing.

The Blue Nile gain is almost three times the average IPO first-day gain, which is about 12 or 13 percent,

It's good public relations (and) investor goodwill, ... (It) shows that we're standing by our shares, that we hope that the individual and institutional community follows suit.

With globalization, companies are looking in new places. Maybe it's easier to be elsewhere than New York.

The world prior to that legislation was tepid compared to the enormity, velocity and scope of the deals in telecommunications that we've seen since then.

One of the issues I'm looking at this week is Crayfish which will trade under the symbol CRFH,

You can just wait long enough and someone else will have an opposite opinion.

It's not good. Historically, it's hard to make up ground.

A lot of people think their vendors can solve this problem for them. We believe a vendor can provide a HIPAA-ready system, but only an organization can make it compliant. And it's not a one-time process like with Y2K. It's ongoing,

This is the opposite of the perfect storm, the perfect calm that makes this a good time for MA activity.

It's nothing like that mind-numbing pain you were in before.

This is excellent news for all of our commodity organizations. It will mean that we will draw even more companies and organizations to our trade show, that we can offer even more educational opportunities, and continue to build a framework of cooperation between commodity groups.

We encourage all our dealers to satisfy their objectives and (create) a good relationship in the community.

We're very excited that our students have proved themselves worthy of this.

I'm in the camp that says it will be a third down year or at best a little bit higher, ... I'm still waiting to see if Oracle deal gets done. Typically with hostile deals, three out of four never get completed.

You should apply the same classic investment principles.

The offer price is usually reserved for specialty clients and top brokers, ... There are starting to be some cracks in that barrier, but generally the average Jane or John will never (get access to the reserved inside price.)