Quotation of the Day

[riverbabe]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"Then Italians and Spaniards and Turks brought cafe life to the streets. Physically, tangibly, this became a much friendlier, more open city

WILFRIED PORTH, a member of the Daimler board, on how Stuttgart, which has embraced migrants, had once been a dour place

[riverbabe]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"Don't get me wrong, 12-year-old me is very disappointed in current me. But it's the right thing to do"


CORY JONES, a top editor at Playboy, on the magazine's decision to dispense with nudity, for cultural and business reasons

[billyjoe]

Has gone straight downhill since "Women of Enron" issue in 2002. Not that I ever read the magazine.

-------------billy

[Louetta]

Cramer on Steve Ballmer's involvement in Twitter: "Maybe he'll do to Twitter what he did to Microsoft."

[riverbabe]

Uh-Oh

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"What patients and their families don't realize is that they are on their own."

DR. DIANE E. MEIER, a professor of geriatrics and palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital, on an incorrect assumption that Medicare will cover most costs of caring for a parent with dementia.

[riverbabe]

Quotation of the Day

"Life will go on for Valeant."

- William A. Ackman, the billionaire investor, defending his hedge fund's big investment in Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

[billyjoe]

CEO Marc Baum of Imprimus referring to $1 pill for Daraprim, a drug that Martin Shkreli's drug startup Turing Pharma has raised from 13.50 to $750 per pill.

Baum : "Today some drug prices are simply out of control and we believe we may be able to control costs by offering compounded alternatives to several sole source legacy drugs."

More to the story. Please excuse some of the colorful language: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/2683...li-reddit-ama/

-------------------billy

[riverbabe]

CEO Marc Baum of Imprimus referring to $1 pill for Daraprim, a drug that Martin Shkreli's drug startup Turing Pharma has raised from 13.50 to $750 per pill.

Baum : "Today some drug prices are simply out of control and we believe we may be able to control costs by offering compounded alternatives to several sole source legacy drugs."

More to the story. Please excuse some of the colorful language: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/2683...li-reddit-ama/

-------------------billy

Incredible. And the colorful language is definitely appropriate.

[riverbabe]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"Ominously, business has a good chance of opting out of the legal system altogether and misbehaving without reproach."

WILLIAM G. YOUNG, a federal judge in Boston, on the rise of arbitration clauses in contracts.

[riverbabe]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"This is great news. People like me will be able to acquire it for rheumatism."

CARLOS CANCHOLA, 87, a retiree in Mexico, on a ruling by that country's Supreme Court that opened the door to legalizing marijuana.

[riverbabe]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"You can't pay for housing and food and clothing on $18,000 a year, period. And that's what today is all about."



GOV. ANDREW M. CUOMO, of New York, on his plan to raise the minimum wage for state workers to $15 from $8.75 an hour.

[riverbabe]

This one is here because it hits close to (my) home.

Quotation of the Day

"It is unlikely that it stops here, and there is a possibility that Marriott will be looking to sell off some of Starwood's brands."
- Wouter Geerts, a travel analyst with Euromonitor International.

[mimo_100]

"The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him no good." Ann Landers

[riverbabe]

"The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him no good." Ann Landers

I eventually had to throw him out. LOL

[jiesen]

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

-Henry David Thoreau