WestJet president and CEO Sean Durfy, left, shares a laugh with Gregg Saretsky as the two walk into a news conference in Calgary on Tuesday.Chris Bolin Photography Inc.
YOUR PERSONAL BAGGAGE MAY HAVE SHIFTED DURING THE SHORT FLIGHT
"You run out of steam after a while. Especially at a company like WestJet. It is an amazing place, but the airline space and the airline sector is exhausting."
- WestJet CEO Sean Durfy explains his surprise decision to quit the job at age 43, after only 18 months at the helm, to spend more time with his family.
WE SPENT THE WHOLE TIME LOOKING FOR THE EXECUTIVE JET KEYS
"It was so terribly flawed in design and execution."
- Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro tells a Congressional hearing how the U.S. regulator's monitoring program, which actually placed SEC examiners inside Lehman Brothers' offices ahead of its 2008 collapse, failed to uncover the investment bank's massive misleading accounting tricks.
THE DIFFERENCE IS, SLICK WILLIE TOOK STUFF PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANTED
"Willie Sutton said it all when he was asked why he robs banks. That's where the money is."
- Billionaire investor Sam Zell explains his penchant for snapping up distressed debt.
BUY ME OUT OR GET OUT, CARL
"If he doesn't like the way they're running the company, he should either buy the whole thing or he should sell his stock and go away."
- John Kornitzer, whose firm Kornitzer Capital Management owns 1.4 per cent of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., grumbles about notorious activist shareholder Carl Icahn's attempt to buy just enough shares to seize effective control of the film and television studio.
TRY NOT TO PICTURE YASSER ARAFAT IN UNDERWEAR
"Frontier markets are sexy right now, and we are about as frontier as you can get."
- Ahmad Aweidah, head of the Palestine Securities Exchange, goes to London to try to sell foreign investors on the attractiveness of the Palestinian bourse.