25 Quotes by David Shapiro

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

I wouldn't have been as frustrated by my lack of high-speed access if the entire area around me also couldn't get it. But around here, almost everyone else already had high speed Internet service. At work I was the only one stuck on dial-up service.

I felt like I was the only one in the world left on dial-up.

There is a strong chance that we will get a rate cut shortly and that will define where our market goes. The market is not at expensive levels. Money will still shift towards equities rather than stay in cash.

Listed property receives rental income. It passes on nowhere the kind of growth a business might have. Listed property delivers more or less a fixed return. People buy these stocks for yields, but they do make capital growth over time.

We needed time to analyze the situation. We are not closed for business.

You look at the velocity of tenants out there looking for space, and you can see it's gone up quite a bit. I think it's just a matter of time when the rates bump up.