Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I value Burnt Mountain more than I can tell you as a refuge, a piece of pristine solitude, peace and beauty so near, ... No one I know or talk to is in favor of disturbing this gem of a community asset by putting in ski runs and a return catwalk.

So much of this game is about confidence. It's about feeling good about your teammates and yourself. I think Lawrence does a good job of recognizing that. He started giving players extra time on the court even when things weren't going great. Our bench has become an asset to us.

Teresa's leadership skills, merchandising knowledge and store operations experience are vital assets for driving the future success of The Great Indoors,

Sally's experience and longtime commitment to the cultural and economic development of the Berkshires will be a great asset to the Clark. We welcome her and look forward to working with her.

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.

David Rosenberg

A Bush win is good for asset managers but bad for life insurance companies.

Bill Graham

A coordinated response is being prepared, ... We made it clear that if military assets are needed, we will make available whatever is requested.

James Grant

It seems to me the least-esteemed asset in existence is cash, short-dated treasuries, and I think that is the asset that is going to surprisingly outperform in the years ahead.

It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, it's very important for the team and the city. We're trying to win championships, and anything that takes away from that concentration (such as contract issues) hurts. I think we can be one of the top three teams in the West. We have a great team and great coach. And we have an asset that a lot of teams don't have with Yao in the middle.

As outgoing Fed chairman, he's clearly concerned about the asset cycle and the prospect the low concern on credit risk is going to be associated with a decline in asset prices down the track,

That's not an asset the state can see.

Allan is a massive signing; he will be a tremendous asset and will give us great strength.

Brian Tracy

Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyoneelse.

You're bringing in a new segment into the market that was never there. A lot of investor money is pouring into gold and commodities. It's become a valid asset class.

This announcement of yet another no-hassle SPARC system upgrade provides great asset protection to Sun's huge base of applications and customers.

This administration has been clear that SPR is a national asset that can be used in times of supply disruption, like a natural disaster,

They sent people to help us out. They helped us get all those assets lined up.

This is a needed project and will be an asset to the community.

This is an attractive opportunity for Talisman and is a logical continuation of Talisman's successful business model. These assets materially enhance Talisman's production growth profile and offer significant cash generation potential.

They're trading off of net asset value, privatization values, cap rates and things of that nature.

They've done well to have enough gains from the sale of assets to be able to offset these losses because they were in fact quite a bit bigger than the initial estimates.