Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Definitely seeing (the police) out more, even at night, would be a huge asset to this community.

Dee brings a wealth of federal acquisition experience to this position and she will be a valuable asset to FEMA and the department.

Competition for entertainment projects has become increasingly competitive and the state legislature provided Georgia the tools necessary to attract these high-paying, creative, non-resource draining economic development projects. Our incentive package enhances an already strong slate of assets and we are seeing great results.

Companies can bring their own assets in the form of Java code and Web services and stitch those into this product.

They're not chartbusters, and that's what gets funds noticed. (But) there are plenty of funds that haven't garnered a lot of assets and are good investment vehicles all the same.

They're not chartbusters, and that's what gets funds noticed, ... (But) there are plenty of funds that haven't garnered a lot of assets and are good investment vehicles all the same.

Paul Jewell

They have that asset of blistering pace. Coming into the Premiership the most difficult thing is to score goals but they always looked a threat tonight.

The REIT market is liquid, there are low transaction costs in terms of getting in and out, and you avoid the maintenance headaches of ownership (while maintaining exposure to an asset class) that could perform well in theory should inflation go up.

As we continue to watch the recovery efforts in the Gulf States and our hearts go out with our money to those regions, it is clear that the assets we have given the department over the past three years are being put to good use,

Asset quality continued to improve during the quarter as we sold the only property categorized as Other Real Estate Owned (OREO) at a slight gain to its carrying value. Loan loss reserves increased in relationship to the growth in the loan portfolio.

Asset management remains the highest quality revenue stream and the highest return-on-equity revenue stream in the financial-services business.

Asset management is a scale business, and we expect some cost saves.

Asset liability matching demand from pension funds will support the longer end and assuming the ECB hikes rates aggressively, we might see a flat yield curve by April.

asset accumulation plays a vital role in escaping poverty.

Rob Enderle

They put in a number of their top assets to really turn the group around. Going forward, they have a team that can execute and meet their dates.

A lot of people have been afraid, have been scared because of the WorldCom disaster. But a lot of value players are now rushing into AT&T, ... Why? Not because of the phone business, because they have sold their cable assets to Comcast. And that brings a new ball game for AT&T holders. You know, the Comcast deal will give each AT&T shareholder about a third of Comcast stock.

This is simply a part of our process of liquidating all assets of the corporation. As we head toward the end of this process, we saw this as an orderly way to maximize these assets.

This deal is positive. China needs to import oil, after all, but we have to know the valuation of the assets before we can say if it is at the right price.

This deal gets Bank of North Carolina closer in asset size to some of its $1 billion peers in the Triad.

This fact raises clear questions about the integrity of the internal ethical wall that purportedly separates Deutsche Bank's asset management division from its commercial division,