Quotes by Mark Boyd

“Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.”

“All-in-all I think we have developed a whole new parallel real estate market. We want to augment what the investment real estate industry is already doing ... and add a little fun to it at the same time.”

“With nearly eighty million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where its warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.”

“With nearly 80 million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where its warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.”

“This has been kind of a long journey. Its really challenging and very different from how advertising usually works. In mainstream advertising, we create a low volume of output - 30-second bands - with high production budgets. In this new year, we operate differently. What were creating are high amounts of output with low budgets, low control.”

“With a job field that is growing quickly, theres going to be a certain amount of desperation. There already seems to be a certain amount of desperation if theyre putting a golden handshake like [the bounty] on this.”

“We just had to play consistently and thats all there was to it, and I didnt know if that would do it. They worked hard for it. Itll be a good trip for them.”

“Blake Payne. He saved us today.”

“He was in the low 80s and 80 almost all year, but about three tournaments ago, he broke 80 two days in a row. And now hes doing it again. Thats a big step for him.”

“I was hoping we could do it this year. Id be disappointed if we didnt. Theyve got potential and theyve been on the varsity three straight years.”