John Riley Quotations

We believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

Most of the time it's just a damaged or missing recycling bin that's the problem.

People would stick around to the end of the year to get the bonus then quit after Christmas,

I believe this is basically an intrusion on the creative process and an ill-thought revenue-gaining procedure.

Get involved through your local church, ... Find out what they're doing.

If someone was been with us for five to 10 years, they would have received $500 to $1000, ... Now, they make much more than that under the new compensation program.

I was always interested in this kind of stuff. It kind of piqued my interest more.

Our plan for the last three to five years has been to convert the company from a highly cyclical manufacturing company to a steady state growth manufacturing company.

Well, this wouldn't be the best time in the world for you guys to be shredding a lot of stuff,

We have concluded that no purpose is served by affording Danaher the opportunity to perpetuate misconceptions about the merits of our re-incorporation, ... We continue to believe that the re-incorporation of Cooper would bring significant value to all of our constituencies, most importantly, our shareholders.

There are many things we could choose to comment on (that) we've done this through the process.

We're very excited to have Mark Gracy move his company to Jefferson County. It's a positive sign for our county that maybe we're making that turn, starting to see increased activity in the business and manufacturing sector, ... Mike had a lot to do with this. If he wouldn't have gotten the grant from the state to help with the buildout cost on the building, this wouldn't be happening now. He pulled this deal together.

They need to help us make the decision. They need to prove themselves a little more. They have a lot of work to do to help us support or not support this.

As we look to the future, the changes we've announced today are necessary for us to effectively compete, ... Over the last several years we've made considerable progress in reshaping Cooper into a company focused on our higher growth and less volatile electrical tools and hardware businesses.

It sounded like it was OK to me,

In my view, it would have been appropriate for our engagement team to discard, destroy, shred confidential client information that was unrelated to the issue at hand.

It has to stop or our grandchildren will never know what deer hunting is. The habitat and the herd have to be balanced, and we are responsible for that.

Because of questions surrounding the company, it would be a bad time for a lot of people going back and destroying lots of documents.

These are impossible times for us, ... We need that license increase, and if we don't get it, we've got to cut programs across the board.