In the last nine months we have been filling out our capacity here. We've added individuals and professionals. We will be opening up equity research on the ground. We think there is demand for the product both inside and outside the region.

Any new idea that comes up over the intervening number of months will be added to that and so we're going to see property taxes increase exponentially from where we are today,

I was born nine months premature.

The site roared twenty-four hours a day for nine full months and beyond. From autumn through winter and into spring the crews labored in twelve-hour shifts, got some sleep, and came back for more. The enormous scale of their workplace is difficult to convey.

We can all count to nine, and at best we may be at four in two months.

[Roth — whose announcement ends months of rumors over just who'd be filling Stern's immense kicks — will take over in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Dallas and West Palm Beach, Florida.] You've built quite an empire here, and I'd like to think that they've saved it for the best guy, ... It will be a very interesting adventure.