Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Fisher

The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.

Scott Jones

We're seeing a divergence in the equity markets and a divergence in the tech stocks, ... Dell is weighing on hardware stocks.

Mark Russell

We feel that the blockbuster sale of RMA to NCO Group is an indication of transactions to come as private equity looks toward a sale as a way to profit from investments made a number of years ago.

Alan Rose

It's the fear there's going to be a mad rush for the exits in the equity market: that's what generates the interest in Treasuries.

John Person

This move will have a short-term negative impact on the equity markets. However, it is longer term, a positive.

Toni Simonetti

There was some interest expressed on the part of multiple parties to invest in our commercial-mortgage business. We're in discussions with those parties, ... We are amenable to equity partners, but GMAC's intention is to maintain a significant equity interest in this business.

Erin Buzuvis

It's a gender equity issue that (UI) missed. I think it's a wonder that no one has ever said anything about this before.

Jeff Simpson

There's equity in the conference. There's a small margin between finishing second and finishing last, and that small margin is hard to define. I think we're better than our record shows, but we're playing in a very tough conference.

Jim Cain

There's equity in that name and we want to use it.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Brad Pacheco

We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.

Anne Bremner

We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there was arbitration, and only one newspaper left standing after all of this sound and fury.

Benjamin Franklin

Stand firm, don't flutter!

David Sloane

This modest rise in July may reflect the firm July payroll rather than being a signal for August.

Bob Smith

It was the firm that releases it each month to our Web site with instructions from us as to what time to release it, and it was released by that firm early.

Nelson Warfield

It was a moment on the national stage for Pataki. And he can say that when an out-of-control, liberal union tried to shut down New York, he took a firm line.

John Hawkins

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Ed Goren

People who knew Troy outside the locker room knew he had very firm opinions on how the game should be played, ... I got to see that side of Troy.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Bob Schaffer

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Bill McKibben

According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

Carl Jung

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Frank Fernandez

We're still in the upswing of one of these long M&A cycles, which tend to last several years. M&A growth will probably be up 15 to 20 percent next year.

Steve Snyder

We're seeing a lot of growth in the South.

Robert Mellman

We're looking for a little slower growth and a little higher inflation, but there will be a slower slowdown in growth than a pick-up in inflation.

Deepak Chopra

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Christian Maher

It's a savage profit warning for the UK.

Denny Grimes

They need to get realistic and quit getting greedy, and realize a profit is a win. There's no sin in making a profit.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

E. B. White

Profit sharing, we put in place as soon as I arrived. That was important to me.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.

Eddie Izzard

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Mark Cuban

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.