Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cerberus is traditionally a long-term investor. What they do is look for undervalued assets that they can acquire, then turn around and help them grow.

Budapest is right in line with our international strategy, and we have won it at a fair price, reflecting the true value to BAA of the assets involved, rather than any wider strategic benefits.

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.

Kathleen Blanco

Obviously it is a lot easier this time because the assets have not left Louisiana, ... So I believe that what we are preparing for will give us the strength to take care of the situation, however it works itself out.

Carl Icahn

Given the fact that, despite its exceptional assets and a generally favorable operating environment, the company's stock price has underperformed significantly since 2002, we believe the time for steps to make the board and management more accountable are long overdue,

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.

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.

Mark Thompson

I don't have the assets to back up one these homes.

Jane Greer

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.

Jack Ma

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

The deal is based on a 50-50 valuation of the two assets, and there will be no cash payment, ... We have combined our assets with Sony's because we believe music will remain one of our core businesses.

Harold Washington

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

What we're trying to do is make sense of this rash of standards. We're constantly being audited from all sides. We do our best to set priorities. The message, though, is that ROI has nothing to do with perceived value of assets. It's about protecting assets and maintaining consumer confidence.

Don DeLillo

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

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.

There are still an awful lot of assets that have been evaporated but not written down. People are looking for a quarter with bad news so they can write it all off at once. Asset quality is lower than it has ever been.

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

Martin Feldstein

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

Peter Schiff

What will most likely occur is a long overdue loss of confidence in financial assets in general, particularly those denominated in U.S. dollars.

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.

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,

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.