Richard Peterson Quotations

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

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

Some companies do in fact retain their gains while others fail and fade like a fading rocket.

Mr. Pompey may have told (another inmate) some of the same things he told me, to collaborate with some of the things I have already conveyed to you,

Maybe with the market rebounding, some companies are getting ready to test the waters again. But the IPO market is still bad and there's no room for error,

Numerous people are very proud of the work we've put into this.

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

If in fact there's a higher demand for deals, you'll be paying retail instead of wholesale. And if the market gets a little fluffy, you will see questionable deals as well.

If some of the troubled Dow components got into line, the Dow could go to 12,000.

That whole sector got hit pretty hard and a lot of deal structures couldn't be effectively assembled.

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.

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

Those of us who track this are playing catch-up with the deals, trying to get the all the volume totals.

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

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

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

There's really an over supply of biotech offerings. That sector has been leading the offerings and it's been a poor year for biotech.

There's not much for IPO investors or bankers to get excited about.

The worst problem was to sit you just couldn't sit. I mean, you couldn't get comfortable no how.

It would take a large decline or a significant shock to the system to see a reduction in deals.

These companies could have pulled back. But the reason for pulling out is usually market conditions, and it's hard to justify that right now.

Companies are trying to take a preventative strike against hostile bids.

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

You should apply the same classic investment principles.

This is going to be a big one. This could be one of the biggest non-tech offerings ever.

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.

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 M&A activity.

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

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.

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.)

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

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

They can use that to buy E85. Membership in MCGA is your ticket to this excellent deal.

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.

The investor demand wasn't there. In terms of pricing, this is the worst week since August 2000.

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

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.

If (Rotary) wasn't doing this project, where would they end up? In the dump.

You could be approaching $80 billion in announced deals for this month.

The catalyst for deals is generally rising corporate profits, ... We should have rising activity next year.