9 Quotes by Marvin Roffman

I don't think anyone is going to do a better job and God forbid they should have a glitch in earnings,

Whoever succeeds him will be compared to Welch. He's kind of like Henry Ford, or Mozart in music.

That's how he builds, like a fortress. A lot of people don't think forward, ... What's the point in building a building that can't withstand an earthquake if you're in an earthquake zone?

A lot of people look at McDonald's as really a real estate company that happens to be in the restaurant business.

They're doing the right things and getting in the right areas. The professional builder market is a $400 billion-plus market. When you're the second-largest retailer, if you want to continue to grow you have to continue to go after really large targets.

The larger companies, they're so broadly diversified, it's a hiccup, ... That's the whole purpose of having numerous properties. If you're a small operator, then it can become meaningful.

I'm not so sure the casinos themselves are going to want to build in those same spots. There's a lot of risk involved.

The do-it-for-you market is a real growth driver. The company does more than 11,000 installations every day.

All of this is for one purpose. It is to make sure that shareholders are aware exactly what's going on and that when they read the proxy statements it's in English and not something where you have to have a lawyer come and explain it to you.