Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is in keeping with our upstream strategy, to build our portfolio of high quality producing assets and medium term development opportunities to supply our British Gas customers.

This is clearly not the case, ... The liabilities may have been understated and the assets overstated.

On balance, we believe companies will continue to grow their earnings, while buoyant liquidity and improving business confidence will encourage investors to seek assets with potentially higher returns.

Terry Lewis

The new AGSS II provides the look, feel, motion, tactics, targets and realism that are warranted to provide the proper training for these most important assets to the aircrew team

It's really a central bank story. But the dollar will gain favor if we see U.S. assets drawing investors again.

Any time there is a transfer of assets and there is a cloud over the assets, any transfer is at risk of being undone.

I like the fact he is going to bring an uptempo style to the team. He has a pretty good track record. I think Siena is going to give him some assets that he hasn't had the other places he's been.

Patricia A. Woertz

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

Inflows to international equity funds in 2005 exceeded those to U.S. equity funds. Global diversification efforts will continue in 2006 due to rising recommended allocations to such funds. Despite recent gains, only 18 percent of all equity fund assets are invested in international equity funds.

It will be very negative. Given the easy money out there, if these kind of prime assets can't get taken, it will rattle a lot of investors and depress sentiment.

They both have assets that can assist each other. I'm trying to get them to start communicating.

The value placed on today's computing assets has made theft prevention and recovery software an imperative tool,

They'd be worse off than they are right now. Right now all of Tyco's assets are available for recovery or execution by any judgment the class were to obtain.

Jay Brown

There's a good mesh between the assets we own and our expertise in the business.

There's some evidence that they may be shifting away from dollar reserves to other assets to try to diversify their reserves.

There's just tremendous demand from Chinese individuals for assets to invest in. And the assets they would be most interested in would be foreign currency-denominated, and not just the dollar.

There's just such an enormous demand from pension funds and insurance companies to match their assets with the liabilities of the boomer generation.

John Sexton

The time has come to move this tournament to a new level, ... By putting the formidable expertise, commitment, assets and knowledge of the NCAA behind this tournament, what we've done is to take a New York icon and given it a chance to be something even better.

Jan Egeland

The United Nations stands ready to help with any kind of disaster expertise that might be required ... in full recognition that the United States is the country in the world that possesses the greatest civilian and military search and rescue and recovery assets themselves,

David McIntosh

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

We want to make sure all assets are in place to evacuate so that no one in South Carolina dies because they weren't able to leave South Carolina and go inland to safety.

This is unlikely to be a significant negative for the dollar. They're unlikely to start moving heavily out of dollars as U.S. assets still yield more than in Europe or other countries.

In these difficult times, if we can allocate assets where they can produce higher returns, we will move those assets into markets that will generate a bigger return.

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

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.

In a disaster, no state in the Union has all the assets to do what will be needed.

It has the most significant port operations on an island nation. I trust the management and will leave it to them, but given the quality of the assets there seems room on the upside.

I fret for the 55- to 65-year-old investor who is investing the bulk of their assets in high-flying multiples, ... They can permanently impair their capital base. They don't have the longevity to earn back the money.

If you can fund a deferred compensation program for senior executives using a pool of assets that's in effect found money, you're much better off.