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Our Favorite Quotes
By
Chris Rugaber (TMF RFK)
July 18, 2000
People say the darndest things. Here are some of our favorite and most memorable quotes from the past six months.
"I mean it comes, it goes, right?"
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, March 20th, on losing over $6 billion of his net worth that day.
"In the past year, the ability to monetize shareholder ignorance has never been greater."
Warren Buffett, at this spring's Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
"I think it's dead money for a while, but I want to differentiate it from all the pieces of [expletive] we have buys on."
Merrill Lynch Internet Analyst Henry Blodgett, on his upgrade of Amazon.com, in a February 2 Washington Post article.
"It is sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is."
Lars Ulrich, drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica, on music distributor Napster, April 13th.
"Am I supposed to feel bad that we've exposed Microsoft as hiring the Citizens for a Sound Economy to say that anything that is bad for Microsoft is bad for America?"
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, June 29th.
"A lot of analysts work for firms that have business relationships with the same companies these analysts cover. And sometimes analysts' paychecks are typically tied to the performance of their employers. You can imagine how unpopular an analyst would be who downgrades his firm's best client. Is it any wonder that today, a 'sell' recommendation from an analyst is as common as a Barbara Streisand concert?"
SEC Chair Arthur Levitt, February 12th, on analyst ratings.
"Today's ruling really represents an unwarranted and unjustified intrusion into the software marketplace."
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, in response to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling that the company should be split in two.
"Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind."
President Clinton, on the completion of the mapping of the human genome, June 26th.
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