David Ryan Quotations

Usage statistics are a leading indicator of our business growth. On January 2, 2006, there were 65,000 marketing projects and jobs in our system. On March 31, there were 83,000 marketing projects and jobs. Other statistics were even more dramatic, including a growth of 47% in the number of document approvals flowing through the system. Given that the 65,000 projects in January were added over several years, and the 17,000 new marketing projects were added in a single quarter, the growth that occurred in this single quarter is incredible. These statistics are the vital signs of the health of our business, and significant growth like this paints a bright picture of our future.

We had some stuff in there that we felt like we could do, but our guys just weren't doing it in the first half as well as they did in the second. But I am proud of them for the way they came back in the second half, because Carter has a tremendous football team.

Everybody we've seen here today has an aversion to authority figures. They're afraid of their government, ... So the government has to reach out to that particular population if we expect to do anything with the number of cases we have here.

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position.

Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.

My percentage of winners is only about 50/50, because I cut my losers very quickly. The maximum loss I allow is 7%, and usually I am out of a losing stock a lot quicker. I make my money on the few stocks a year that double and triple in price. The profits in those trades easily makes up for all the small losers.

The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a successful trader.

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

Coach McCaffery was great to us this year. It was a great year, and right now he's our coach.