Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Cox

You look forward to any time Bonds is playing because he's that good.

You don't need much of a reason these days to go down 5 or 6 percent. And we have some good reasons today: bonds are down and the dollar is getting clobbered.

We'd like to see Lear's bonds get cheaper before we jump in.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

The question is do people who move into a subdivision want to pay 20 years of bonds and tax themselves or pay $10,000 up front that is the true cost when they buy the house?

The prospect now for any reform of Italy's public debt must be close to zero. I wouldn't want to hold Italian bonds until they get to a spread that acknowledges those risks, and they certainly don't at the moment.

Nicholas Kristof

I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.

We're not going to allocate Liberty Bonds today to buildings that are never going to be built.

With our significant presence already in the region, and the fact that California is one of the largest issuers of municipal bonds in the country, it just made sense for us to have a trading desk in the state. We have a total of 68 branch offices in California, Nevada and Hawaii, and we also run a public finance office in Los Angeles, so we know these markets well.

George Tillman, Jr.

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

Bill Gross

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

We have seen strong buying of bonds this week by foreigners. The underlying tone for bonds is to buy into any weakness, which suggests that the market expects bond yields to keep firming in the coming months.

We have seen some reallocation out of equities into bonds this afternoon.

Lisa Cholodenko

There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.

Yields aren't high enough to entice investors. I see little reason to buy bonds as stocks are looking bullish and the economy is on a recovery track.

Yields are close to their highs, and so bonds look attractive. Yields already reflect speculation that an end to the policy will come in the second quarter of next year at the earliest. Any signs of a weak economy or government opposition to changing policy may trim those bets.

There are reports of solid underlying demand for 30-year bonds from pension funds and insurance companies.

Tom O'Connor

Both tend to do well when inflation is up and bonds are underperforming.

Alex Berenson

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

Today the collective wisdom is that the economy will improve in the not-too-distant future, and that's hostile for bonds because it suggests that the Fed is done easing monetary policy and that financial markets may confront some interest-rate pressures as the economy improves and borrowing re-accelerates.

Josie Bissett

'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

We know the U.S. has pressures -- employment issues and elections and the credibility of the government. For China, we could also say that the current state is not only good for China but also for the rest of the world and also good for the U.S. because we are using our foreign exchange reserves to buy U.S. Treasury bonds and subsidize U.S. consumers.

You can get all these bonds on sale later in the year.

Felipe Alou

We had injuries, Bonds and (Armando) Benitez. To this day, Bonds hasn't shown up. And a lot of guys didn't have a good season. So you bring up the young guys.

We're unlikely to see a rally in medium-term bonds with core consumer prices edging up.

Revenue bonds are different. It is not a tax bond. It is paid completely out of revenues from the district, and what we'll use it for is to improve the infrastructure of the district.

Right now bonds are reacting, and perhaps overreacting, to employment and CPI. What we will probably see in the next couple of months is that we aren't as close to an interest-rate hike as those two reports might suggest.

Harry Markowitz

Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.

Theo Epstein

Ironically, Theo's departure has brought us closer together in many respects, and, thanks to these conversations, we now enjoy the bonds of a shared vision for the organization's future that did not exist on Oct. 31.

People are breathing a sigh of relief and bought a few bonds and stocks. Everyone plays, everyone wins.

People are awfully comfortable with the outlook for stable Fed (policy), so bonds trade with the stock market.

Pension obligation bonds is just a nice way of saying we're going to go borrow more money to pay for the money that we owe. That means that that debt, if you look at it over 30 years, guess who gets to pay that? You do. The students of today will be the people who are the debt payers of tomorrow.

Pension funds need long bonds and will be eager to buy at the auction. Demand will be quite strong.