193 Quotes by David Shields

The 10 billion barrels would be a substantial amount if there were a basis for it, and there's not at this point.

We are really tired of people asking us about our rankings and we have to say we're not ranked because we do not have a full-time day program. We're not doing this just for the rankings, but unfortunately, this is the way the game is played.

We're not expecting a large volume of Chinese visitors to (suddenly) run to Jamaica. So we're looking at the marketing in a structured, managed way. We know we need to look at the return on the investment. There are lots of challenges but there has been tremendous support from other agencies of government, from the foreign affairs and national security ministries. We have to be patient.

When I went back home over the summer, it seems like everyone is in a rush to be in a specific place. Boise's just so much more relaxed.

This was in fact before the establishment of the embassy last year, and proved to have been very useful for us from a tourism perspective, also in terms of Jamaica's understanding of the market and also from some indications of cultural activities and cultural levels.

I've never seen a potato farm since I've been down here.

It's a very difficult area to develop. You need sophisticated drilling techniques to develop it commercially.

The airlift situation is not seamless and although in the last year we have seen, for example, Continental Airlines starting non-stop service from Newark to Beijing and Air Canada doing service from Beijing to Toronto, the difficulty of the visa over the US presents a problem for the Chinese.

It's hard to compensate for a super giant field with something much less than a super giant field.