33 Quotes by Michael Friedman

These $1 million to $5 million yachts are like floating condos. People who can afford them are getting good pricing on them. They're also taking advantage of low interest rates. Also, if these boats come with a kitchen and restroom, then they can be classified as a second home and the interest can be written off as such.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Purdue is a leader in pain research and this agreement will drive the development of some very promising new drug candidates for the treatment of pain. We hope to file an investigational new drug (IND) application and commence human clinical trials in early 2007 for a compound that has already been identified, to be followed thereafter by IND filings for additional drug candidates on a yearly basis.

Rather than viewing a contract simply as documenting a deal for the future, smart businesses use it as a source of information. Lawyers can set up incentives so that payments only get made if certain benchmarks are met.

You never appreciate the functions your liver provides for you until it stops working.

This is an absolutely critical gift at this moment. There's some tremendously exciting observations being made about ways to manipulate the immune system to help our cancer patients.

This is the latest in a series of major steps being taken to help enhance the safety and wholesomeness of America's food supply,

It's pretty obvious that, on the surface, they have a hard argument to make that all of this was reasonably necessary. You've got two unusual facts: Someone convicted of a sex offense was assigned to this, and the second is that the amount of money it took (to investigate) was the absolute maximum.