Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're encouraged with how strong the quarter finished for our radio stations, which outperformed their markets for the sixth straight quarter, ... As we continue to focus on operations, the disposition of our TV assets continues. The sale of 9 of our 16 stations will result in proceeds that exceed expectations.

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.

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.

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.

Jack Ma

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With borrowing costs on the rise and the wealth effect from real estate assets diminishing, something has to give.

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

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.

Barry Ritholtz

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

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.

We have thousands of employees that don't have a PC. They log in and there are a slew of assets they need to authenticate to. I can't base a firewall policy around machines with a roaming user group.

Typically, a couple will come in with unequal assets, ... They've lived together for 12 or 15 years and both of them have children from their first marriage and want their assets to go to kids (of the first marriage).

We need to figure out how to help more lower- and middle-income people save for retirement, ... not lose large amounts of money by giving people breaks at high-income levels, who already have substantial assets to fall back on.

I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time and sold off the assets to strategic buyers.

Jim Petro

We have only Mr. Noe's unsworn assurances through his attorneys that these assets are unrelated to his dealing with the Bureau of Workers' Compensation,