Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Conroy

Not being able to capitalize is our problem.

It takes two things to sustain a company -- capital and commitment. When we started out, the commitment was high and capital was low and over time the commitment seemed to meet the capital.

It will be done in the future but we don't have a timetable now. We still have to take a look at demand and capital markets.

It wiped out every cent of capital the Allstate companies had realized since their inception in the state of Florida.

They blasted us with a number of shots. I think they took a lot more chances in the first half ... We're a patient team. We like to wait for an opportunity and then capitalize on it.

They capitalize on the power play, and we couldn't capitalize on ours, and that was the difference.

Lloyd Carr

The turnovers were really monumental. The offense was outstanding in the first half. We gave our offense some opportunities but didn't capitalize on it.

Jeffrey Sachs

The volatility of international capital is obviously destabilizing markets today.

James Surowiecki

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

Melita Norwood

The various countries of this rotten capitalist system with its unemployment, its wars, and making money-I hope it will come to an end.

They want a unified city, the capital for two peoples and this is the time that the president (Arafat) feels that he would stress the right of the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the city and the capital of the coming Palestinian state.

They hit shots and hit threes. We didn't capitalize on the opportunities we had. It made a difference.

There's so much investment capital out there for profitable new technologies. Investors are constantly looking for good ideas to invest in. If these ideas are as good as these companies say, they should have no problem, at minimum, finding a loan.

There's not a lot of political capital to spend on moving the Legislature the way he wants if they don't want to go.

Michael Young

There's no doubt about it, we need to go on a run, ... We need to put ourselves in position to capitalize if some clubs in front of us tail off.

There's nothing wrong with what the Fed is doing. The problem is that when you ease like that in a speculative environment, all that capital gets misallocated.

The trade surplus will continue to shrink because of higher oil prices and sluggish exports. The direct effect of high oil prices on Japan is negligible and domestic capital spending is strong which is also causing imports to rise.

The trend has not changed in that a recovery in corporate profits is leading to rises in capital spending.

Kevin Richardson

The travel industry is very dynamic and changing. There are a lot of opportunities where they might need to make investments to grow, and public markets can be very short-term in nature. Prides Capital is in it for the long run.

What the market is telling the Tiger economies is that they have too much capital in their tradeable sector relative to their competitiveness.

Merton Miller

What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Clayton Christensen

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

Peter Kenyon

We spent 151 million pounds, of which 141 has been spent on capital expenditure, primarily in the playing squad.

We spend two to three hundred million dollars in capital improvements for sewers from our capital spending plan. A lot went into the sewers in Southeast Queens over the last decade and there are plans for more work to be done. We are doing a lot to alleviate the flooding, but we have to do more.

Anna Wintour

This is why New York has become the most relevant fashion capital in the world. Because we respect not only the established designers but also the up-and-coming ones like Peter.

They're a suffocating defense, and that's on everybody. We got our opportunities and had our shots. We just didn't capitalize on them.

They're in good shape. They gain from the perception of a turnaround. I'm sure everyone's going to be looking at how they capitalize on that.

They're hanging on using their own capital, and eventually, when that capital goes, they're going to be closing their doors.

They're going to pump some capital in it and try to make it work.

They really capitalize on the fact that we?re the first (in the nation primary). It?s ridiculous.

Marc Andreessen

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

Cristie Kerr

I hit it fairly decent today. I didn't hit it great. I gave myself a lot of opportunities, which I was able to capitalize on early, and just keep the momentum going through the round.