This week we saw Intel, Citigroup, and GE disappoint and that jarred the stock market.

The first few years it was to the point of giving tickets away. This year we are working hard to divide up tickets across our four business units.

There are a lot of guys I like who I don't necessarily want to play a lot of golf with. For all kinds of reasons -- they might play too slow, they might complain a lot, they might get too pissed off. Golf can do funny things to a guy's personality.

We are hearing some pretty good news, but we have to take a wait-and-see stance and see if they deliver when they report.

When I feel attracted to a client, what that really means is that there is something appealing about the person; it's a good sign for the patient.

We like GE at this point primarily because all of its big business segments are really firing nicely.

Someone had to be the first to offer dollar-cost averaging for free. Since no one else wanted to be first, it was us. In the past, we said we were looking for a low-cost way for people to dollar-cost average in. But this is not low cost, it's no cost.

Every single business day, the world's focus is on two major times of the day, the market open and market close. The idea we could bring the entire focus on this tournament reinforces how important we think it is.

We're delighted at the success, but honestly not surprised at Jake's popularity. He makes you feel good.