Bill Burns Quotations

I am sure that the little dog of Mrs. Williams would have been a snack for him. They have been known to eat small mammals.

I think the publicly traded companies will be very careful making acquisitions in the future and concentrate on operations versus being the largest. Currently, asking prices are too high relative to what publicly-traded companies are willing to pay.

I think Arnold is a big phony. I think it's horrible what he is trying to do to our California economy.

Otherwise, it would have been five or six minutes,

Station 4 had a one-minute response, ... That house would not have withstood five minutes of free burning. We would have lost the roof and the motor home, and had damage to neighboring houses.

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

The supply chain that we have been building and have in place now has a capacity that is well in excess of the sum total of government orders that we've received to date. If governments feel the need, we stand ready to take their orders. There should be no holding back through the belief that we do not have enough supply.

Demand for coal is still exceeding the supply, ... It's cheap and very reliable.

The bottom line is, don't order over the Internet. Go to your doctor, get a prescription and then get it from a pharmacy.

Your feels may be positive or negative, ... No matter what you're feeling, dealing with change can be hard.

They still have less-than-stellar top-line growth, and expenses have been growing. So one thing I see coming out of this is savings just on the cost side of $60 million to $70 million, primarily from eliminating duplication.

Although I was confident of where the fire came from, I called in the fire marshal because of remarks made about the fire department,

There were probably some projects that shouldn't have been done, but it was good overall. Our infrastructure was in bad shape. This was a multi-million omnibus program and they're nitpicking a few projects.

They probably won't be able to salvage much.

The best line of defense for humans and alligators is to just let the alligator have distance,

They came to us for a solution to the problem of wave damage along the canals.

The idea is to get all of this information together and then look at it from a weak-link-in-the-chain-of-preparedness perspective. If you look at how many people need shelter and then you look at potential shelters to see if they will, in fact, fail ... you can find the weak link and fix it.

The confidence is there having seen a strong first quarter.