Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Johnson

Getting a client who has built up liquid assets of, say, one million dollars to pay an annual, upfront fee of $10,000 is a much harder sell than the $400- to $500-per-trade transaction. The client has to be convinced of the value-added.

Newt Gingrich

Frankly I believe that there's too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence we're going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.

Funds are looking for places to put money and they feel that fundamentals are still very there. There is a movement towards diversification, away from paper assets and back into hard assets (such as metals)... as a part of a portfolio you just have to have.

I would support the full investigation of this matter and all of the national security issues at a minimum, but I would oppose turning over control of such important assets ... to a company owned by a foreign government.

Building assets is very, very challenging unless you have a good story to tell. There are a lot of funds out there with mediocre stories to tell.

Because we do not have generation assets to ?hedge? the impact of the rate hike, Maine consumers take the hit worse than any other state in New England.

China and India have rapidly growing economies and a great challenge for them going forward will be finding energy assets to keep their economies growing.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

I think the one thing people are missing is the one thing that is attracting Hilton: the hotel operations. They could be setting up a sale of core assets in the Sheraton brand,

Having paid for these assets we'll still remain within the long-term gearing target the board has set.

Having lost all of their crops last winter, they have managed this year by selling off their assets to purchase food. They must wait two more months before this year's crops come in, but it will be the hardest two months, here at the end of the farming cycle.

Willie Randolph

He's a guy, overall, that gives us more assets in that spot. Miguel played well for us early in the year, and he can always go out there and grind and claw and do certain things. But he did come here to be backup guy. If Kaz can finish up strong, the way he's swinging right now, it would be nice for us.

Gold has regained its status as an investment vehicle. It's one of the better performing assets in 2005, and I expect gold to work up to $600 next year.

John Howard

If any military assets are needed, they will be readily available.

If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the carrying value of those assets, the sale of those assets would trigger a further loss and reduce the underlying capital of the institution.

I encourage them to interview other financial planners during the process. I give them names of other planners in town and I continue to manage their assets only for the short term until they have found that new relationship with a financial planner. I find it a conflict of interest to represent both.

For us, certain defenders may just have the assets to match up with a certain opponent.

Given the volatility of some regions, who is to guarantee that your assets might not be worthless one day?

Global trade, settlements and reserve assets are heavily reliant on a single currency. The fund should give priority to establishing a surveillance and check-balance mechanism of the major reserve currency countries.

Underperforming assets are not going to work in the marketplace. Spin-offs used to be desirable. Now it looks like companies want to give to the investing public divisions that they can't do anything with.

We look forward to building Fun's businesses by combining its leadership in online skill games with Liberty's media assets and expertise in using video to build popular brands and services.

If they have not issued a financial statement, that's a company to stay away from. You can't do any evaluation without looking at assets and revenues.

If the child is the direct beneficiary, then all of the IRA assets go to the child upon the mother's death and are subject to income tax.

He has assets the other (applicants) don't have.

He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.

He fully understands that one of our most significant assets is our people, and developing our talent is one of senior leadership's most important responsibilities, ... Len has both earned his way to this understanding and grown into it.

Having good credit is very important to me, I mean buying a car, a house, all the big assets of my life. I need to keep my credit score up." ()

There is a growing awareness of downtown as one of our primary assets -- that it's an economic driver and one of the reasons people live here.

Ben Bernanke

There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop precipitously.

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.

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,

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,

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