Richard Davis
Richard Davis
Fiction writer and journalist who was the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 April 1864
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I don't see any reason why it shouldn't continue for two to three years...It will take a very long time for mine production to ramp up.
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I'm about to pull my hair out. Not having an indoor practice facility is becoming a key point.
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I want to continue to take the team in the direction that we're headed. This is a program that can win. ... I'm just going to continue to take the program in that direction.
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The Internet creates a whole new market and almost a whole new pricing. You have a series of prices lined up side by side.
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The use of a hospital has changed. Design factors have changed. We are simply taking new architectural design standards and incorporating them in the hospital.
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We show them how they can invest the money in real estate and earn 12 to 15 percent, through us. We typically buy a house that is 50 to 60 percent undervalued, put some money into it and sell it for 100 percent of its real value.
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Each time there is a back-to-school session more students go online. We expect this back-to-school season to be the biggest ever.
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We spent $9 million promoting the show. We are kind of hitting our stride now.
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We're disappointed and hurt. But I would rather delay it a couple of months than have something terrible happen and lose something. (Everyone) has worked too hard to not see this through.
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I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth.
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Bad luck was as much a factor as our own mistakes.
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This is an issue that took a great many people in the community by surprise.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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One of the things that investors are gradually starting to recognize is that business software is very sticky.