Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are prominent problems that call for our attention, such as rapid growth of investment in fixed assets and of bank loans.

This will help us utilize our assets better as Standard Chartered does not exist in the United States. Because we do not operate in the nights, we have free capacity available during the nights.

Jack Ma

EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

Dixie Carter

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

Diane Garnick

I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients.

financial assets decline only gradually when households are in their retirement years.

Finally, ... the turnover ratio is the big secret of the mutual fund industry. The average fund turns over its assets 100 percent; that means they fully sell out and buy something else, and guess who gets to pay that tax bill at the end of the year? You and I do.

Fill the bucket with the cash that you'll need for the next two to three years and keep the rest of your portfolio invested for growth. Every six to 12 months, rebalance by trimming from the best-performing assets to replenish the cash.

Falling interest rates have increased the value of pension deficits. While the market value of pension scheme assets has increased over the year by around 15 per cent, this has not been enough.

There is no risk-free way to keep your assets away from creditors or else everyone would do it, ... Everything is a tradeoff.

Alan Greenspan

The physical assets of such a firm comprise a small proportion of its asset base, ... Trust and reputation can vanish overnight. A factory cannot.

With commodity returns outperforming other assets in recent years, pension and hedge funds are expected to increase investments in commodity markets.

While it is always a difficult decision to eliminate staff, this is the right thing to do for the business. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, these changes will make us a nimbler, more flexible organization that is closer to our customers and better positioned to optimize our assets and increase profitability and shareholder value.

With our value strategy, assets located in major global markets, long- term customers, and talented and dedicated employees, I am confident that we will capture future opportunities in the markets in which we compete.

With the assets and resources we do have, we have a good plan.

We're talking about an ultra-catastrophe, where the need is such that the military's training and assets would meet an immediate need in support of Homeland Security coordination of the federal government's responsibility and recovery efforts,

Bethany McLean

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

We wanted to do something practical with the assets that we had to work with here which is our warehouse and our trucks.

Jeffrey Zeldman

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

There is not a precinct, township or county where we don't have some volunteer or staff assets working to make sure voters are turning out for Jim. We have volunteers working the phone, door to door and getting last-minute cards out to friends.

We've got a lot of fun things going on, and a lot of assets in the county. And we're going to show 'em our assets.

Jim Hall

We will determine what other assets might increase our chances for successfully recovering the cockpit voice recorder and what the next step should be once that is accomplished.

Greg Brown

This takes the Motorola automotive electronics people and assets and a significant backlog of orders and ... overnight makes this business a category leader. So we saw it as a much better strategic fit for both firms.

There has been a massive shift to notebooks. Without a shift to give these guys a vehicle to compete in that marketplace, we are just not going to be successful. The channel needs to have the right tools and assets to take this and drive it.

We think they're out there probably trying to sell this business, ... That's going to magnetize some assets and help this company.

We're pushing about $190 million in assets (statewide).

This transaction gives us more overlap with our broadcasting operations, which ultimately enables us to deliver more flexibility to our clients. Universal has an outstanding collection of assets and personnel that have demonstrated strong performance.

We are selling some but are still net buyers because we think property values are still going up in Japan. For some assets we can make more money holding than selling.

Barry Ritholtz

Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

When the economy is in recession, investors generally put their money into assets like gold, as opposed to buying assets like stocks, ... Gold is much more popular during recessionary times.

We watch film and he's running past guys like they're standing still. But that's one of my assets that I pride myself on, that I can run fast. That's why I got drafted high. I can run real fast, and I'm one of the fastest guys on the team. So there's not too many guys that are going to blow past me. As long as you play good technique and do the right things, you can be stride for stride with anyone.

Timothy Noah

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

Donald Trump

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.