Appealing Quotes

With the Chinese there are no strings attached. They don't talk to you about democracy or reform. They give money, the Saudis give oil and there are no hidden agendas. The Saudis find those kinds of relationships more appealing. - Gal Luft

With revenue growth slowing, Ballmer has tried to squeeze more down to the bottom line to make the company more appealing to investors... Even the cuts that seem trivial have dampened morale. Just whisper the word 'towels' to any Microsoft employee, and eyes roll. Last year, Microsoft stopped providing a towel service for workers who used company locker rooms after bike rides or workouts. Employees who helped the company build its huge cash stockpile were furious. And don't even mention stock options. Employees long counted on them to bolster their salaries. Microsoft minted thousands of employee millionaires as the stock climbed 61,000% from its 1986 public offering to its peak in 2001. Now shares are trading exactly were they were seven years ago. Microsoft has doubled its payroll in that time, adding more than 30,000 new employees, not including attrition. That means more than half of Microsoft's employees have received virtually no benefit from their stock holdings. - Jay Greene

With prices starting at $500 a square foot, downtown condos can be purchased for less than $500,000. With the freeways jammed, that's appealing to those who want to live close to work. - Douglas Hanson

With every $100 that goes by, the risk/reward ratio gets less appealing. - Martin Pyykkonen

Wild Jack made a conscious decision to make the final table open only to feeder satellite winners. For as little as $11 or $22, a player will win a poker trip worth over $3,000. And with nominal buy-in fees, we plan on seeing a lot of our regulars, as well as newcomers who find poker boot camps appealing. - Mary Wise

While the latest donation from the United States - which brings their total contribution to $114 million - is extremely welcome, we are urgently appealing for more cash so that we can continue to move food stocks into place in Sudan, in advance of the rainy season. - Bradley Guerrant

While the financial aid is indeed appealing, not everybody obtains such relief. Anyone who can show that they produced and harvested a commodity that was approved for inclusion in the TAA Program qualifies for Technical Assistance. - Mark Bailey

While immigration of large numbers of American evangelicals to Israel might sound appealing to many Israelis -- especially as further Middle Eastern wars seem possible -- Rabbi Boteach's notion of inviting hundreds of thousands of American evangelicals to Israel with the expectation that they would not evangelise is silly. - Frederick Clarkson

While anonymity is appealing in some ways, to be constantly anonymous devalues our self-worth. When someone acknowledges our humanity, even by something as simple as knowing what drink we like, it reinforces ... our sense of belonging. - Melinda Messineo

Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? - Ahmed Yassin