Bob Reed Quotations

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team considers diversity a business imperative, and our commitment to diversity -- besides being the right thing to do -- adds value to our company and our communities.

We're getting the process started with exploring bonding and meeting with some people who are pointing us in the right direction.

One of the keys to it is treating everybody with dignity and respect - he treated all of his employees the same.

It always was a family and still is.

I think the book itself is a blueprint, really, for any company on how to make a company successful.

I think if they lowered the tolls it'd make a big difference. That's the kicker.

We got behind and had to foul them, and they nailed their free throws. We cut a 17-point lead down.

Bill Howard tried his best to keep it from happening. There was really no one to blame.

And when we have been out practicing on the course we are wearing three turtlenecks and a jacket. It's not necessarily an excuse, but I think for me the short game just hasn't come back yet.

The sellers will have to get more realistic to the market in what they can actually sell their home for.

Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fiction to fiction,

You need to be hitting it to a green with a flag stick, not a bucket. I mean, it helps that we can hit some wedges in the bubble, but it's not the same thing.

They didn't give up. They scrapped and did everything they could.

It was around 1963 and I was only 23 years,

It's a great honor for us to be recognized by the prestigious LATINA Style for two consecutive years. We feel that we have a very robust diversity plan and we're gratified and encouraged when the experts tell us we're on the right track.

It's going to be tight. It's going to be tough to do. But it's a little easier when you know it's the right thing to do.

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

They are heated bays, but they aren't that heated. They don't get that warm when it's 8 degrees outside. It can only help so much.

Instead of having a choice between six or seven home where they are competing. They now have a choice between 30 to 40 homes in their budget range. Now they can look and examine and it will take them longer.

Hopefully next year we can round into shape a little quicker. This was the first time we've seen the course, so maybe next year it will be better for us. You can definitely score on this course, but we just didn't score enough.