Mark Phillips Quotations

Since becoming customers of our Bank, we have been very impressed with both John and Laura and the unique and highly specialized business they've built up over the last 30 plus years. They clearly know their business and what they're doing, which made it a lot easier for us to do our job and what we know best, which is helping businesses succeed.

More importantly, though, they provide our customers with a service experience that is second to none and a critical element to our business, which ultimately leads to new or expanded loan and deposit business.

On paper we are better than the team that got third at nationals two years ago. The catch with this group is they are all freshman except for Scott and Ryan. But we are very excited about the group's talent. Their ability to get along and support each other has been wonderful. Whatever success we have this year, we are set up to have even more success next year.

I don't think it's over. Time will tell.

He had gained a lot of weight and he had some tendonitis problems. We dealt with it the next year. Compared to what he ran before he didn't run all that fast.

He has the ability to be the top runner in our conference, and if he can stay healthy he can be one of the top runners in the country.

This was one of the toughest meets in the Midwest, so it was an eye-opening experience for our freshmen. I thought everyone gave a very good effort and ran really well.

Katie has gotten healthy. She is stronger and more fit than she was at any time during last year's cross country season.

Just reading the stories in The Sun Press would have kept (council members) informed.

It is nice to be able to play ahead instead of behind. I was trying to be really aggressive in the first half, because I knew how important it was for us to jump out to a big lead.

Our top four gives us probably the best top four runners that have ever been at Cowley for women. We are so excited about our top four, we just wish we had three more to go with them.

We continue to be very pleased with our loan growth numbers and the ongoing demand among borrowers for our loan products in all of the markets we serve in Nevada and Arizona. Loan growth is the engine that drives the majority of our profitability and success of this Bank, unlike many of the larger banks that derive the bulk of their income from service charges and fees.

We think we have made a step, but we have some more to climb. If we can run five healthy ladies at conference, we are going to give Johnson County all they can handle.

We are very impressed with Patricia and Ryan. Those two are everything that we thought they would be. They are training hard and running well.

This is a significant step in the coffee arena as there is a traditional image of coffee going hand in hand with a cigarette.

This group of individuals definitely joins our bank with a great deal of banking experience and knowledge about the markets we serve. The loyal customer following and excellent service these individuals bring to our Bank will greatly benefit both our loan totals and bottom line.

always prepared to listen to the other side.

It is very fair, but asks questions all the way.

I'm delighted with the results, which are a reflection of the very positive attitude of the students and their teachers.

I know people were upset, but I think they would have been more upset to hear a terrible show.

He ran really well, and we know he is just going to continue to get better.

The hardest thing is take-off. Once you have it in the air it's not so bad.

The last year has been one of much change at de Stafford and these results now prove that all the hard work is paying dividends. There is now concrete proof that de Stafford is on the way up.