Robert Morris Quotes (41 Quotes)

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

All of them are finding the materials to be more expensive, and that puts a squeeze on profits. We are talking about a market that is more price-sensitive today than a year ago, with the interest rates going up.

I'm not sure that leverage coupled with technology is a natural marriage, ... but certainly technology acquisitions can make sense if the capitalization is appropriate.

If you put clean water into dirty pipes, you have dirty water,

It's becoming more common for companies such as IKEA to locate distribution hubs in Savannah. The Savannah River International Trade Park is in close proximity to the port, and we have room to grow at the terminal.

You cant ignore the fact that technology is the principle strategy of every company in the U.S. economy today. So I think the technology sector is going to continue to show good relative strength in sales and earnings, and I would buy the dips in technology,

Frankly, we haven't seen an environment as extreme as we saw in 1999 and the first part of 2000 for some time. We have gone through quite an usual period, so hopefully our experience is reflective of the fact that we can perform in years in which our style is clearly not in vogue, and in years when it is in vogue.

I think companies that are selling at the lower PEs, obviously, carrying some question marks in investors' minds, are the ones that you vote for here. So, Wachovia Bank, for example, looks interesting to us, ... But, generally, I think the lower priceearnings multiple financials are where you want to look right now. The quality merchandise has been bid up. And I think this spread right now says move from the quality financial down scale a little bit for the lower-priced ones.

I'm sure the Duquesne kids are aware of Robert Morris and I'm sure the Robert Morris kids are aware of Duquesne, ... We've had a more intense camp to get ready. Playing Duquesne is a good way to start.

Robert Morris , director of equity with Lord Abbott and Co., likes stocks that have been under selling pressure and are ready for a bounce. What I think is key with Xerox is that we got down here because this company had a near death experience financially, ... I think that with a little profits, with better cash management and some new product announcements, I think this is priced at a level where a relatively few number of points can give you a big percentage gain.

They were the community leaders. They were the leaders of the civil rights struggle.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

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I liked counterpoint because of the way that things went together. That was interesting because the musical elements were separable and then you could warp all of these lines and times and spaces into each other and put voices together. That was a different kind of experience from harmony and I was very affected by it, too I was escaping the boundaries of space and time.

The global economy, ... is showing a very good recovery after a very bad two years. We're seeing rising demand across the board. Two of the companies that we like a lot, Duke Energy ( DUK Research , Estimates ) and Dominion Resources ( D Research , Estimates ), are nuclear plays they are also involved now in the natural gas industry, and I think both of these companies are set up to show above-average earnings growth for this group, above-average dividend growth. I think it is a safe place to be in this market.

She was shocked . . . by the loss and is wanting to get answers to the questions as to why this could happen and how this could happen. No parent should ever have to get that phone call that they lost their child someplace they're supposed to be safe.

I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool.

Hopefully the rally today Wednesday means we're breaking through some of the skepticism about accounting.

The real trick on any buyout fund, and technology funds even more so, is balancing the company's leverage level with the use of cash. And in technology companies there tends to be an extremely high use of cash, because you are constantly investing in and developing the technology, which is not true in what I'll call stable old businesses.

One of the things we're interested in is attentive user interfaces. These are interfaces that pay attention to you as you pay attention to them.

I think Chase at 12 times forecast earnings is a very cheap stock and a very well run company. I think the probabilities are you're going to make some money here.

People who were looking for a big rally today with expectations that the Fed would announce that it was done, were disappointed.

We are opposed to this marina, and any effort to compromise the military security of this nation.

These are massive, ocean-going vessels coming out of this port every day. The proposed marina would put small pleasure craft in direct contact with huge vessels.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Aetna has been creamed here by the decision of some health insurance groups to stop requiring doctors to get the green light with the group before recommending patient treatments and I think represents a great long-term buying opportunity.

It's not like making a cell-phone network, where you have to plan very carefully where the cell towers go.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

When composers say that music is a temporal art, I think that's true, but what is most fun in music is when you know that there are connections that are non-temporal. You can compare them with the unfolding of the piece again - you can compare the drama o

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It was probably one of the most difficult times. I thought, 'I'm making money, I think I'm doing my job,' but people weren't appreciating it. After a while, the criticism does sting.

This is a straight forward story. There's a high probability that they hit their (quarterly results) numbers in the coming quarters. This is not a one or two-year phenomena -- it's something they can extrapolate into the future with world class distribution and product.

I like the paper group here (especially Bowater). With the weaker dollar, I think paper is going to be a surprising performer here, ... I particularly like the newsprint sectors. I think pricing is a little more advanced in that part of the industry than it is in some of the others.

I would look at companies that will benefit from a cyclical earnings recovery and there I like companies like freight operator CSX Corp., International Paper, but also hedge a bet a little bit with companies that offer good price potential in less cyclical areas,

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The packaged food area has also been in a relative price decline now for three years, but this is another area where some companies continue to execute well and deserve investors' attention,

It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.

I like Apple Computer. I notice it's down a little bit (Friday). I think this company has a good future. I think people are beginning to respect the fact this is probably the most innovative of the PC companies, away from the corporate war, so I'd be a buyer of Apple,

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We've got a big swing in fiscal policy, and a huge monetary stimulus, something we haven't had in a long time.

The idea of putting a small-craft marina across from the terminal is a dangerous proposition.