Famous Quotes & Sayings

Total client assets were a record $1.246 trillion as of month-end January, up 17% percent from January 2005 and up 4% from December 2005.

This officially recognizes what the market has already stated: Traditional broadcasting assets are worth less than they were a few years ago.

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

A weaker yen will put substantial downward pressure on inflation and will result in lower interest rates. A stronger dollar also means that U.S. assets are more attractive, once you buy them.

At some point in 1999, I think they'll pursue something deeper, probably a media empire. I think they're going to want ownership of brands other than their own that can drive people to their site. (They) need some offline assets -- some real-world assets.

Michael Birch

Those rail assets are being used to funnel commodities all over the place. With Babcock & Brown involved it tells you that they expect a fair bit of growth.

What is really new in the commodity world is the extent to which hard commodities have been converted to financial assets through exchange-traded funds and hedge funds.

Alan Greenspan

What is not clear is whether the market values that are being placed on particular assets involved in this technology revolution are appropriately priced.

Steve Odland

?We want to encourage other companies that have significant business assets in this area--as well as those that do not--to join us in a massive relief effort for our fellow citizens who will be suffering in the days and weeks ahead.

To ignore this blatant misappropriation of our intellectual property is akin to taking these assets that we've invested in and saying they don't matter.

you have to make the most intelligent decisions with the assets you have.

These are very vulnerable people with all their worldly assets on the move and often without men, for example women and children, or without their clans - their normal structures of protection.

These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.

The scale of victory was a surprise and that had a positive impact on Japanese stocks. There will be a bigger pull to buy Japanese assets over foreign bonds and stocks.

I've not seen a period like we're witnessing today. Everybody is quite stretched in people and assets to respond to the increased demand.

It would see to me the downstream assets of Texaco in the United States are the major issue here. Generally speaking, the upstream generation and production company doesn't have any FTC concern.

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,

What the current deficit does is make the dollar vulnerable. It means we could see a vicious cycle, where a declining dollar makes U.S. assets less attractive to foreign investors, which weakens our assets further, which puts further pressure on the dollar.

We moved quite quickly as we became aware of the circumstances. There is always a concern in these situations about what assets may be available to liquidate.

We will sum up lessons from the issue and further strengthen our internal risk control system by sticking to good corporate governance to guard the safety of banking assets and maintain the bank's health.

We expect the Vanguard 500 Index Fund to surpass the Magellan Fund in terms of net managed assets by late next year or early 2000.

We are ultimately trying to build something with long-term viability. We are long-term holders of assets and will become a permanent fixture in this community.

Granted, they're not taking property, but they're taking control of a portion of my property, ... They're seizing control of the assets of my property.

For the most part, bar codes are better at collecting data in highly structured and engineered processes, such as warehouses, and this will likely continue for the next five to seven years. However, RFID tags will be used for data collection of mobile assets and in largely chaotic or unstructured business processes, ranging from retail environments to hospitals, enabling these environments that lack sophisticated process engineering or controls to be systematically managed.

For the first time since August 2001, the Treasury will attempt to ease the pain for pension funds and insurance companies who need long assets to pay for a growing number of baby boomers.

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.

Clearly if we are going to get consumers to consolidate their assets with us, we have to bring them in with new products and keep them here.

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.