Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Cook

Make sure the distribution of your assets is right for your particular goals, that your risk versus return is an appropriate tradeoff, and that the same people are managing your mutual funds.

George Goncalves

Let's take it one step at a time. Let's take the 30-year and see how that goes. We haven't had such long- duration assets in five years, so let's not go from one extreme to the other.

Louie Gohmert

Many communities, faith-based entities and the state of Texas have drained assets to save lives and help with the enormous multi-state national emergency, and they will need reimbursement to avoid massive financial failures,

Adrian Darley

Selling assets to reinvest in expensive companies is not normally a sound strategy.

Tom Borelli

Mr. Paulson seems to have gotten the message that shareholder assets ought not to be used for his environmental interests that he has previously acknowledged to be purely personal. But we still want to know what happened on the Chilean land deal.

Albert Lin

MCI's problem is it has to bundle its services using other companies' assets so it will never enjoy the types of economic returns that other telecoms can,

Harold Vogel

My impression is that Mr. Murdoch has been in a phase of building assets for most of his career, 25 years or so, and he has reached the point where most of the key pieces are in place,

Cara Black

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

Jean Chatzky

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Consider using one bank for all your banking needs and one brokerage firm for all your investments.

Spencer White

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

Mike Adams

Moose meat is, like all protein in the food banking business, just like gold,

John Callas

Now we are not dealing with kids having fun. We are dealing with criminals -- the Russian mafia. And online banking risks are there if your bank offers it, even if you don't use it.

Doug Liman

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts.

Uday Kotak

I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

Ben Bernanke

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

Pete Kight

Free banking has provided the greatest growth over the last two years.

Bryan Sanderson

The place is growing very rapidly and the banking sector is growing as a multiple of that.

Ron Mendelson

Navigating the complex legal and tax issues involved in investing and banking offshore requires the services of a professional who is specially trained in offshore investing and banking.

David Johnson

Letting it spiral out of control is a public-relations nightmare. They should have done damage control. For an administration known for its rapid responses and e-mails, this one looks like they were tone deaf.

Joel Walton

Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty good defensive plays and it allows us to go in and control play from start to finish.

Ben Bernanke

Low marginal tax rates are supportive of economic growth. I would submit that we would want to look very hard at government spending - make sure it's controlled - before we raise taxes, which, in turn, would have negative impacts on the economy.

Julie Roberts

Leadally, we won the game in two areas. We controlled the speed of the game. Panmure like to play it very fast but we worked hard to settle that down and we won it in the goal circle.

Cathy Nelson

Lebanon controlled the match, was putting us on our heels. We couldn't stop them.

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

Pink Floyd

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

John Myers

Security has to be obvious and send a no-nonsense message that this is a controlled zone that is under surveillance. You want people to know that it's not an easy target.

Sathya Baba

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Zhang Qi

Share prices will hinge on corporate earnings in the short term.

Maureen McCarthy

Maybe we have bottomed. But in terms of going higher, when it comes to corporate guidance, we are not hearing that.

Sara Anderson

My internship showed me a glimpse into the corporate culture of EMC and its 'Count on Me' attitude, ... Needless to say, I liked what I saw.

Scott Washburn

One of the things we've found, as have our large customers, is the need for remaining flexible within the corporate structure.

Safra A. Catz

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

Geoff Bobroff

Morningstar should stick to their knitting, which is measuring investment returns, ... They do not have the expertise to judge companies' corporate governance.

Susan Linn

We can no longer stand by while our children's health is sacrificed for corporate profits.

Peter Cardillo

From an interest rate standpoint, it's negative. On the other end, if the economy stays strong, corporate earnings will stay strong.

Colen Garrow

From this perspective, it is somewhat disappointing that corporate tax remains unchanged at 29% and that STC also remains unchanged at 12.5%.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Bruce Springsteen

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...

Milan Khatri

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Jia Qinglin

Last year, President Hu Jintao and President Jacques Chirac exchanged visits successfully, which further boosted the development of bilateral ties,

John Edward

So long as he leaves open the prospect of even further rate increases, however, he won't get it.

Paul Tracy

Obviously we've had some run-ins this year and I've come out on the short end of the stick but that only motivates me further for next year,

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Brian Nelson

More money should come in to the sector in anticipation of further consolidation.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Thomas Kurth

We are positive about this review, but we will be very quick to push the issue of governance to the top of the agenda.

Thomas Mann

Bush's partisan style of governance has reinforced it.

Adi Godrej

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

Mike Smith

There are many pluses from a governance point of view in trust structures.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

Joko Widodo

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

Mo Ibrahim

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing

Yoshio Utsumi

Internet governance requires a multi-stakeholder approach. This is why we have suffered such agonies in our discussions on Internet governance.

Ayatollah Ali

Governance Is a Primary Rule and Has Priority over Secondary Rules.

Jim Stewart

Mentally, you just have to stay focused. The minute you let your guard down, you give up five, six runs.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Mark Sulser

From guard to guard they're 260 each. It's going to be a tough game.

Doc Rivers

I would play him right away. 'There you go. Guard somebody.' And he can do that. I'm sure he'll play. I'd be surprised if he didn't.

Ed DeChellis

If we get those two guys going, we've just got to get some guard production.

Jake Palluzzi

(Barnes) needs to understand how to get open and our guards have to get him the ball, too. It was two-fold.

David Jacobson

She was there to save us. These people in uniform are there to guard us.

Alana Beard

She's our missing piece. We didn't have a point guard we could rely on. She can rock anybody.

Adam Barrett

She's one of the top point guards in the state.

Richard P. Feynman

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

J. J. Johnson

Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code. Taxation, basically. It's what tripped up Al Capone.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Mike Turner

He will not be rehired ... regardless, ... an internal personnel matter.

Allen Freeman

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Ron Gettelfinger

Make no mistake about it, we will make a big issue out of that in the (bankruptcy) hearings,

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

E. Hurley

MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization with even more volunteers and a stronger structure than we had in the past.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Neil Lomax

Mouse's philosophy was, 'Hey, this is what we do. I want my third-stringers to throw. I want my receivers to catch,' ... I just, personally, now have an issue with it. What are you trying to prove after 70-75 points?

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Jeev Milkha Singh

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Toba Beta

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Sebastian Thrun

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

Tommy Mottola

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Chris Willingham

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Alan Trammel

Those are lessons that we need to learn. I made my statement. I talked to him. It's over.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Scott Weiland

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

Dirk Benedict

I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

William Lamb Melbourne

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Alexandra Adornetto

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.

Rep. Gunderson

Let's get them out there and see if they're interested. If they are, they can go through hunter's safety when they turn 12.

Demosthenes

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

David Neeleman

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

David Neeleman

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

English Proverbs

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Jane Garvey

We want to make sure safety is not compromised in any way whatsoever.

Anthony Chan

More and more firms are sticking their toes in the water. The recovery's begun, but it will be fragile.

Dieter Zetsche

We're sticking to the timetable for the moment.

Maria Shriver

I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Gil Jackson

They're sticking together. We just want them to play well, but they want to win.

Sean Elliott

Nothing too strenuous, is what I've been told. I'm sticking to that.

David Albright

sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.

Andy Gugliemini

It's about family, and sticking up for each other and being there for each other. That's what we want it to represent.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Chris Frantz

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

Charles Spurgeon

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Charles Morgan

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Dennis Quaid

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

Deborah Smith

Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure and privilege to know her as a person as it is to translate her work. She's been over for two UK publicity tours, which means lots of time to chat on trains etc., and she was hear all last summer for a writer's residency in Norwich, where I got to meet her son too.

Deborah Smith

I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

Dean Smith

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Edgar Allan Poe

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.