Famous Quotes & Sayings

It makes perfect sense to sell assets in France ... France is probably one of the most competitive markets in Europe.

It makes no sense. You don't sell your capital assets to fund daily operations. What are they going to do next year, sell more?

It's going to be a great asset for us.

Investors have been pouring money into dollar-denominated assets this year, where returns are higher.

Harry Hamlin

In the time I've been locked up here, I've met a lot of other people who are locked up and who may have committed crimes to be put here, but are not criminals anymore, they're really fine people and they're productive and an asset that society vastly under uses.

Investors are favoring lower-cost funds and are putting more assets into them.

Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been better than expected.

Alan Greenspan

investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities compromises the efficient allocation of our capital -- which?is so essential to raising our standards of living.

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

In the case of the Link REIT, the government sold off the assets too cheaply, providing hedge funds like the TCI with an immediate upside.

I want to learn what's going on and continue to be an asset to this team. I guess right now starting is really not something that's really important. I really want to learn what to do, learn what's going on and continue to help in any way I can.

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.

John Tinker

Comcast's other leading asset is QVC, the country's leading electronic reader over cable today. That's a tremendous building block that can be used as the Internet opens up and electronic commerce emerges perhaps as one of its biggest applications,

Joe Royle

He came back and proved a point. When he plays like he did today, with all his running, he is a great asset to us.

Her biggest asset is the confidence she has with the ball. Because she's new to the team, she won't always look for her shot. I gotta force feed her to shoot.

Charles Rangel

Her biggest asset is her greatest liability: She's not one of the boys in the old boy's network - which I am a part of,

He probably wants to run the ball a little bit, but he never questions what we do - just a very valuable asset to our team.

Granted, they're not taking property, but they're taking control of a portion of my property, ... They're seizing control of the assets of my property.

Greg Walden

Graham is a bright and talented young man who is enthusiastic about helping Oregonians in the Second District and learning more about the inner-workings of a congressional office, ... I look forward to having him in the Bend office and know that he'll be a tremendous asset to my team on the ground in Oregon. His family and friends should be proud.

Greater vehicle security is an asset for consumers, but security improvement should not come at the expense of placing motorists in an unsafe situation or forcing them to pay unnecessarily high prices to obtain replacement keys.

For the most part, bar codes are better at collecting data in highly structured and engineered processes, such as warehouses, and this will likely continue for the next five to seven years. However, RFID tags will be used for data collection of mobile assets and in largely chaotic or unstructured business processes, ranging from retail environments to hospitals, enabling these environments that lack sophisticated process engineering or controls to be systematically managed.

For the first time since August 2001, the Treasury will attempt to ease the pain for pension funds and insurance companies who need long assets to pay for a growing number of baby boomers.

If he continues to do that, he'll be a valuable asset -- especially on a team like ours. You can throw him up front for a bit, put him at right wing and he'll get some energy going. Then you can throw him in the back, and he'll do the job there.

If energy continues to grow in value as it is now, perhaps what we could now buy for a billion dollars could be worth $10- or $20 billion in 10 or 20 years' time, which means that those assets have a value whereby we could pay off our debt,

I definitely want to be able to contribute next year. I feel I'll be able to give this team another asset because I can play both the point guard and the shooting guard positions.

Mel Karmazin

I can't tell you what the price would be, but it certainly would be an asset we would be interested in if it were available,

Andrew Bogut

I'd set good screens, get him open, and that's how I would get open. We'd be tough. Hopefully, they take me. I'd be an asset for them.

I don't think he can make an asset out of being in the middle anymore.

Richard Riley

I am very pleased that Chad will lend his experience and knowledge to NCTAF. Chad's passion to improve education will be an incredible asset to the board.

Donald Rumsfeld

I am very impressed, Mr. Secretary, about how quickly we have responded and the assets that you have ordered deployed to help these people.

I believe it is reasonable for them (shareholders) to reject the proposal because no investor would want the parent competing with the listed unit for any upstream asset acquisition.

I feel as though Japan overall has started to bear a slight resemblance to the asset bubble period.

The first time we were able to even look at any of the assets or consider any of their business was Oct. 5. We don't have a very detailed plan yet.