Famous Quotes & Sayings

The impact of capital markets wasn't all negative, and they saw solid improvement in credit quality in their commercial business.

The IMF should work with capital markets, not against, ... It is not the function of the IMF to over-regulate but to ensure risks of capital flows from turbulence are contained.

The difference in the game was that we gave them their second goal. They capitalized on our mistakes and we didn't capitalize on theirs.

Chris Chelios

You want to come out of that with something and we didn't. We forced them to take some penalties, it's right what you want to do, but we just didn't capitalize and it obviously cost us the game.

All these things suggest quite a significant step in liberalizing the Chinese capital account.

Alan Greenspan

The major element of the control of leverage and capital is the structure of the counterparty relationship,

The lukewarm consumer response to tests in the U.S. combined with the significant capital outlay for oven equipment played a considerable part in the decision to delay (if not desert) this initiative.

The key with Merrill is they're not as dependent on some of the venture capital private equity gains some of these companies earned earlier in the year, but have now lost.

These are films that capitalize on the notion of being able to push the envelope and go into territory that you could not go into in a PG-13.

These are extremely trying times for our country. The recovery is going to be led by us via our private capital and our private enterprise. The government does not have a weapon in its repertoire that comes close to matching the power of our collective private resources.

Barry Ritholtz

This is one reason why recent labor numbers were lackluster, ... Accelerated deprecation put a thumb on the side of the scale in favor of increased capital expenditures instead of hiring.

This is a landmark move for China, to partially open the door in its capital account. The significance of this, in my opinion, is perhaps greater than the exchange rate reform in July.

Eric Hobsbawm

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

You can use the funds for anything, you can withdraw any of your capital and not incur any tax consequences.

Matt Taibbi

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

The economy continues to be on a growth path, with a sustained recovery in domestic demand such as consumption and capital investment.

The drop in industrial capital goods is a disappointment - I hope it's just an accident.

The easiest solution is to do like in France and Germany, where the central bank's capital is entirely owned by the state,

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

The fundamentals for strong capital spending remain in place - record corporate profits and an economy that will post solid growth.

The fundamentals are clearly in place to support a strong 2006 performance and it will as always be up to us to operate effectively and capitalize on those opportunities.

The current level of growth is unsustainable over the longer term as house prices in the capital still remain relatively high.

Clint Eastwood

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

The market needs more money to make a new push and that money will probably have to come from foreign capital because domestic capital is starting to even out.

The market's gains really are a response to the good fundamentals we've seen, like the jobless claims. It's really helping tech because that is one of the most cyclical parts of the economy. There is also hope that capital spending will be vigorous even if the consumer takes a break.

The measures have been a long time coming. There is still a lot of potential incentive for domestic capital flight. This should not just be a one-off rate hike.

The market has done better than I would have thought. You've got some signs that the economy is starting to stabilize -- it looks like the consumer is counteracting the negative effects of the capital spending slowdown in technology.

The market has done better than I would have thought, ... You've got some signs that the economy is starting to stabilize -- it looks like the consumer is counteracting the negative effects of the capital spending slowdown in technology.

The market is misreading and misunderstanding the story. The story is the capital account, not, I repeat not, the current account.

The market is being very rational where it's placing capital and the companies that can grow their unit volume, get revenues and earnings going at a 30 to 40 percent clip are being rewarded accordingly, ... I see nothing irrational about it.

Saul Alinsky

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.