Robert Goodman Quotations

Since there are so many different environments in the soil, the likelihood of finding different organisms and different chemistries is high. The world is full of microorganisms that have learned, chemically, how to get along, how to communicate with, how to influence other animals. It might turn out that they're making chemical molecules that turn out to be useful to people.

If an event were to occur that would cause consumers to raise the savings rate and cut back on spending, even for a short period of time, it's conceivable that we'd get two or three months in which the economy would contract, ... 1.1 percent GDP growth is little more than a rounding error -- it doesn't take much to throw that into negative territory.

What you have now is corporations trying to manage expectations with the intent later this year and certainly early next year of beating those expectations, ... So this market is really getting set up for a major change in perception once we begin to see some kind of economic pickup.

I think the Fed will take it very slowly from here on in. The Fed is cognizant of the fact that we are going to get massive fiscal stimulus in the next couple of months.

That act on Sept. 11 made all economic numbers coming out useless in terms of trying to determine an overall trend in economy. More important are the policies that are going to affect future statistics, and they are good.

You may find there is more volatility in the various markets in Europe,

There's no additional money coming in. You're just playing with the same money.

The story of Sept. 11 is the tremendous resilience of the U.S. economy. We took a shot, a real shot, and came back. It shows you the power of this system.

Now is the time to invest overseas. I have not felt this strongly about any investment opportunity since the early 1980s.

You would never hire an accountant to just put in the income side of how much you earn if you have a business. You put in the income and expenses and come up with a net figure.

These numbers are in line with an economy we see as sluggish but still growing. Consumers are still willing to spend, even if they do have to dip into savings.

If there's some action, it's going to depend on how we come out. If there's a swift retaliation, and it's seen as successful, it could make people feel good, spur celebrating and give us a lift.

Investors have to train themselves to look forward and when they do that a whole different picture emerges,

Because there was such a sharp drop, the snap-back is going to be that much more violent on the upside.