Money Quotes

"The trademark of the boomer was that they wanted familiarity, safety, and comfort ... what we’re finding is that the next-generation consumer wants the exact opposite of what we’re delivering."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:00:00 +0000

— Wolfgang Lindlbauer, chief discipline leader, global operations at Marriott International.

"Your own people are laughing at you, sir."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:55:00 +0000

— SnapCar founder Dave Ashton, in an open letter to French President François Hollande about his handling protests against Uber

"If it were legal, I would buy a boatload of Apple stock. This thing is going to be really big."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:22:00 +0000

Barack Obama, after getting a sneak peek at the still-secret iPhone in 2007.

"When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:32:00 +0000

Pope Francis, declaring that theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real.

"Fortunately, Michelle had hers."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:27:00 +0000

President Obama, recounting how his credit card had been rejected at a tony New York restaurant as possible fraud.

“Done. Completely. Not only Mitt and I are done, but the kids are done. Done. Done. Done.”

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:13:00 +0000

• Ann Romney, on the prospects her husband Mitt will run for president in 2016 for the third time.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:10:00 +0000

"Vision without execution is just hallucination. You gotta have teams of people who have great visionaries, but also people who can get things done. It's when you combined the imagination of humans with the processing power of machines — that's where the real innovation comes."

Walter Isaacson, on innovation (interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning)

"Of course, now I know it's possible."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:28:00 +0000

Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (retired), who successfully executed an emergency water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City five years ago today, asked on Face The Nation whether he thought he could do such a thing again.

"Do you go want me to go further?"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:06:00 +0000

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, unzipping his jacket to reveal the layers he wore to an inquiring news crew as he shoveled snow in front of his Brooklyn home dumped in a massive blizzard his third day in office.

"If you want to get personal, that's fine. I'm sticking to my record, and talk is cheap. You're going to see action like you've never seen before."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:45:00 +0000

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has put his name on the ballot to run for another term despite repeated calls for him to step down after admitting he smoked crack "in a drunken stupor."

"She was still out in the water lying on her back in a floating position because she told us later that she couldn’t swim. She still had her mobile phone in her hand ..."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:43:00 +0000

Senior Constable Dean Kelly

'The indispensable companion to life in the moment.'

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:46:00 +0000

The scene at the Twitter specialist station, courtesy NYSECam

A description of Twitter by CEO Dick Costollo as the company's went public on the New York Stock Exchange.

'Only in the NFL can a Harvard degree have negative consequences.'

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:48:00 +0000

Former NFL player Isaiah Kacyvenski, on the alleged harassment that led former Stanford University offensive lineman Jonathan Martin (71) to leave the Miami Dolphins.

'I think not.'

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:50:00 +0000

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina on the prospects embattled BlackBerry can turn things around, on the day the company announced it had abandoned an attempt to sell itself — presumably for lack of interest.

"No way. You wouldn’t be here."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:21:00 +0000

Fighter ace Brig. Gen. Robinson Risner, to a MIG-15 counterpart who had flown in Korea at the same time, asked if he thought the two had ever met in combat.

'nope, i don't want one of those.'

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:43:00 +0000

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, of the new iPads.

"We are going to get engaged. The need is now more than ever to elect people who understand the free market and not silliness."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:16:00 +0000

Scott Reed, a senior strategist for the Chamber of Commerce, on the Tea Party.

"Did you not see the invite? It said white-tie, not ‘Flamboyant Zorro.’"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:23:00 +0000

Stephen Colbert, to the traditionally-dressed Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, at the annual (white-tie) Al Smith Dinner for charity.

"For the past 2 and 1/2 weeks, the Holy Spirit has been waking me up in the middle of the night and preparing me (through my reluctance and doubt) to deliver a message in the House Chamber."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:13:00 +0000

US House of Representative's stenographer Dianne Foster Reidy, who was physically removed from the chamber while delivering what seemed like an incoherent rant during a vote to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling, reading a written statement on Fox news.

"It looks like former congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself out of the race for New York City mayor."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:47:00 +0000

Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, after the organization's latest survey found the Democratic hopeful (AKA "Carlos Danger") had dropped to fourth in a field of four.

"If a person is gay, seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? They should not be marginalized."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:44:00 +0000

Pope Francis, on the possibility of openly gay priests

"She was normal. He was not."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:31:00 +0000

==» A neighbor of James Nichols, the 30-year-old remains of whose murdered wife was discovered in their home only after his death.

"I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:06:00 +0000

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history

"Look jackass, I fucking skipped breakfast this morning just so I could eat four slices of your pizza. Don't be a schmuck, just get back to the kitchen and bring out some fucking pizza, okay?"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:20:00 +0000

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, denied a second slice of pizza at a Brooklyn eatery whose owners were adamantly protesting his soda-size limit ban.

"I’m going to help you out, Sonny. I’ll sharpen the lawnmower."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:05:00 +0000

T. Boone Pickens' grandmother Nellie Molonson, declining to re-negotiate after he made a very bad deal with her to mow very big lawns for a dime each. #MyBestMistake