John Evans Quotations

There is no pressing need (for super funds) to go out and buy some hedge funds.

What a cracker it was but I don't know how I won it. I played shocking at first but kept in there and maybe at the end, Simon saw the winning post and got a bit twitchy.

Keep some short-term fixed income in your taxable account so you have flexibility.

I wear his outfits, ... and I get a lot of positive response from what people see me wear.

I will be the first to put my hand up and say it's partly down to management skills and partly the price of milk, but it's also due to the nature of the robotic system.

Our organization is not in support of this. This new excise tax will become one more factor in the housing costs in the San Juan Islands. And the people who will be hurt the most are those people who are trying to get their first house. It raises the bar for everyone.

That boycott will be against Texaco, Shell and BP. Those two have been chosen initially. We will be adding to that list as we go along letting people know what they need to do.

I was very pleased with the meet, and it was a huge step up from last week. There was the step up in performance that I was looking for, and it sets us up well for the next couple of weeks.

I think site selection is probably as key an element in this as anything else, ... The location needs to be one that is accessible to everyone. It needs to be safe, and it needs to be an area where we could possibly start out small and expand.

I thought it was dead. I didn't think there was any chance of saving it.

The problem is, ... we don't get the luxury of legislating ownership. That would kind of cure this problem that I'm struggling with.

We feel that a good selective boycott on some of these oil companies may provide the tone that will get some action. The fat cats are getting fatter and we know that they are not concerned about the average working person or people in general. They're just concerned about profit making.

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

A photograph doesn't tell the story of the families who you meet who were the victims of this hurricane. Somehow, they remain resilient, and that's what I'm going to remember most about this trip.

As everyday road cars, they are not the best, ... They are quite high strung and almost demand that you push them. Although they are easy to drive, my most pervasive thought when driving on the road is 'Am I going to jail today?'--and you have to really like talking to 20 people when you buy gas.

It wasn't one of our better meets, but I was kind of expecting that. When you are coming off break, the meet was really meant to see where everyone is. The meet shows that we have a lot of work to do over the next month or so.

Taxes, Social Security and health care are a heavy burden on emerging and growing businesses. In calling for reform in all these areas, business owners are saying that they want relief -- a simpler system that will allow them to focus more on the needs of their businesses.

It's hard to describe or convey what you find down there. The vastness of the devastation and the work that still needs to be done, not just the clean-up, but all of the rebuilding left to do.

This is just enhancing what they do for us.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

Clearly, small and mid-sized business owners are saying that the small, incremental changes that have been made thus far in tax legislation are woefully inadequate to satisfy their needs. They want a creative tax alternative that represents out-of-the-box thinking, something that will produce true change.

He probably got too far offshore and got caught in the currents. Free diving is more of a local thing, but we have a lot of mainland people do it. A lot of people exceed their ability and get shallow water blackout.

You can't say there was a single hand that washed this block clean.