Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was the first time I played with him. He's a big strong guy who can fire the puck. He'll be an asset to our team.

Gabe Newell

Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

He's learning fast, faster than I did when I first got here. I'm impressed. Even the coaches are, and the other running backs. They like to see him run. He picks things up fast. He'll be a great asset to the team.

Ed Martin

He's an outgoing person. Clearly that's an asset for him on the campaign trail. He's been around. His trick is to get out and introduce himself to those people.

He's an incredible asset to the district, not only his position, but Mark as a person has really taken it to a different level.

Generally what needs doing with them is the assets need selling and they need to be closed down.

Gavin creates a nice link between last year's squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and passion for the game will be a valuable asset to the Timbers and to the soccer community.

Geopolitical and inflationary concerns have supported the continual flow of money into gold due to its status as a safe haven and diversifying asset class.

Gene-Michael's expertise in sales and marketing of independent hotels will be a tremendous asset for the Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort. Gene-Michael appreciates the level of service and customer satisfaction that has made the Rocky Gap Resort successful, and will continue to work with our dedicated staff to enhance the guest experience -- especially within our group sales market.

Brittany is a tremendous asset on and off the field. She brings such passion and excitement to the team. Having her be so unselfish and put the surgery off for the team... the others just feed off of that.

Earnings remain fairly strong, and stocks are still inexpensive when compared with other asset classes. Many stocks in the tech, financial and telecommunication sectors remain inexpensive when compared with other asset classes.

Berkshire Hathaway sits on $45 billion of cash and generates about $5.2 billion of cash flow annually, ... Berkshire and Warren Buffett have really become the lender of last resort or the buyer of last resort of many assets. And I think he's going to pick up great assets at very distressed prices going forward.

BellSouth is delivering solid revenue growth and strong earnings growth. BellSouth's earnings for the quarter reflect the value of our asset mix as the industry continues to undergo a transition to new services and new competition emerges.

Bill's extensive management, planning and construction experience will be a great asset to the Clark during this time of growth. We are pleased he has joined our staff and look forward to his contributions.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is difficult to suppress growing market exuberance when the economic environment is perceived as more stable, a highly flexible system needs to be in place to rebalance an economy in which psychology and asset prices could change rapidly,

Everybody we've heard wants to save the Grape Bowl. Nobody has told us they want it to be torn down. So far, the sentiment is that it's too much of a community asset to do anything except renovate it.

Brian Cashman

Every day we win a game is a lift. If Jaret Wright is healthy, he can be a big asset in the rotation.

The most valuable asset that this country has ... is its civil rights. Migrants also have rights. They are human beings.

The most important thing people need to remember is this is an asset class that will triple and then halve and then triple and then halve.

The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.

J. C. Watts

Strategically it brings a lot of benefits, more from the assets and the enterprise customer base that's important than from the long distance business. Some shareholders would have rather seen a Sprint deal, but this is easier from a regulatory standpoint. There's no wireless component, and the Department of Justice will consider this in parallel with the SBC-AT&T deal.

Michael Barrett

Some people, like myself, consider life beginning at conception. For me, besides my education, my morals and ethics are the most important assets I bring to my job.

Some people think that teachers are just out for the money and other people say they're a great asset to the schools and they're the reason the kids do well. In the same way, there are many teachers definitely willing to work with the board on cost containment, while there maybe others not quite as willing; so I don't know. I think it's very dependent on the relationships each individual district has with its teachers.

Some people think that December 31 is the cutoff for assets but you can make changes up until you file your application,

Southeastern Materials is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of Outdoor Heritage Days. We're always looking for ways to give back to our local community, and we think this event is a great asset for Stanly County and all of North Carolina. We're thrilled to be a part of it.

Speculators took the words as a signal that China with its massive $760 billion of U.S. dollar reserves may move to diversify some of its assets into euros.

Paul Henderson

Nowadays users are managing software assets in ways they hadn't thought of before.

Oil is down significantly, stocks are basically flat and bond investors are looking at overall valuations of assets and are perhaps doing a little bit of bargain shopping right now.

The momentum higher in gold continues. The consensus in the market is that gold will trade to between $600/oz and $800/oz in 2006. The asset relocation into gold continues.

Do you think GE is going to go out of business? Do you think Microsoft is going to go out of business? You have to distinguish between the asset and the price of the asset.

During the fourth quarter, we resolved several non-performing assets, which slightly increased net charge-offs while lowering non-performing assets. Asset quality continues to compare favorably with peer banks and remains well within our tolerance levels. Strong credit quality, rooted with our guiding principle of securing loans with hard assets, is essential to our balanced growth strategy and overall success.

During that (November) period the U.S. assets market was performing quite strongly. But I think in the coming months we are going to see some softness in that data as well.

Defense is, for some reason, always an asset here.