Michael King Quotations

The point I've always made is that I'm writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.

More than likely, 20% of your customer base is contributing 150% to 200% of total annualized profit (TAP); 70% is breaking even; and 10% is costing you 50% to 100% of TAP.

Fundamentalism is not a phenomenon limited to religion. Any belief system can become intolerant and give rise to violence. Whether one likes it or not, humanity is 'wired' for myth. Mutual tolerance is the only way.

I don't think it was a fair trial. The direct and indirect evidence was causation for a verdict in his favor.

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Japan and Korea have already shown people will buy profitable TV services. I just don't know that a similar dynamic will take place in the rest of the world.

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

That could also mean a change in policies, which also impacts coolness.

I think people were pleasantly surprised by the near-term strength in earnings growth. This is a great company. I just think it needs a little more time before I get super-excited.

We consider today's announcement to be the death of the prospects for widespread use of Avastin plus Tarceva in renal cell carcinoma.

We had a great show in 'Wheel,' obviously. And when we placed it in the right time periods, it didn't just become the number-one show, it became the number-one show in the history of television.

Often the broker will pick their successor. The broker ultimately gets the final say in who gets it because it's their book.

They did ok, but I've seen better from them.

It was always going to be touch and go whether they made double digit growth...It's quite a psychological blow in the short term.

It's a great building. When I walked through the door, I knew that was where it was going to be. You can serve food in any building, but it's atmosphere also.

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.

They've proved they've been innovative in the past. In areas like the knee they are a bit lacking I think, but they're taking steps to address that.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

Certainly, there's just a ton of experimentation now. That's probably what we're going to see for the next two or three years.

I do think this is them sort of going uncle.

He always said King World would take us to the top of the world, and it did. And that's what King World is: a real, true, American story. Literally, a true, American family story that stuck together, worked hard together, through a very, very winding road, to this.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

The head and neck indication was widely anticipated so it's a sell-on-the-news phenomenon in part.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

You've got this huge gap between your current product and the products behind it.