You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.

With our significant presence already in the region, and the fact that California is one of the largest issuers of municipal bonds in the country, it just made sense for us to have a trading desk in the state. We have a total of 68 branch offices in California, Nevada and Hawaii, and we also run a public finance office in Los Angeles, so we know these markets well.

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks

Failure is simply the definition of trying for the last time. Never quit, and you've never failed.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.