Famous Quotes & Sayings

Exchange rates are an entirely different asset class, ... It gives an opportunity to hedge and also to make money.

Jay Brown

There's a good mesh between the assets we own and our expertise in the business.

There's some evidence that they may be shifting away from dollar reserves to other assets to try to diversify their reserves.

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.

I believe it is reasonable for them (shareholders) to reject the proposal because no investor would want the parent competing with the listed unit for any upstream asset acquisition.

I feel as though Japan overall has started to bear a slight resemblance to the asset bubble period.

How intense her role will be now and whether she has a title, we'll determine that in a couple days. My thoughts are she will be a valuable asset whether her title is student coach or not. We look forward to that continued leadership from her.

Inflows to international equity funds in 2005 exceeded those to U.S. equity funds. Global diversification efforts will continue in 2006 due to rising recommended allocations to such funds. Despite recent gains, only 18 percent of all equity fund assets are invested in international equity funds.

Inflation fears are bringing uncertainty that you don't know what your return would be and you don't know which asset class to put your money in,

Michael Dell

India produces over 200,000 engineers and we see that as an asset for our hardware and software activities.

In current market conditions, a high quality U.S. asset manager doesn't come cheap.

In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.

if there hasn't been a change (in Milosevic's approach) in the next three days, the Contact Group's decision to impose an asset freeze will begin to be implemented.

If there's three children that are equal beneficiaries and there's one large asset like we have here, the only real option is liquidation.

I fret for the 55- to 65-year-old investor who is investing the bulk of their assets in high-flying multiples, ... They can permanently impair their capital base. They don't have the longevity to earn back the money.

If you can fund a deferred compensation program for senior executives using a pool of assets that's in effect found money, you're much better off.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.

If you're North Korea, why would you give up, in essence, your family jewels -- your military assets ... all you have left -- when we really don't have much on the table?

If you believe this pension-fund legislation will occur, and if you believe there is asset and liability mismatch, then I think you would have to say a 50-year bond could very well occur.

Jerry Yang

If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.

I like the fact he is going to bring an uptempo style to the team. He has a pretty good track record. I think Siena is going to give him some assets that he hasn't had the other places he's been.

I kind of lean on those four a little bit as to what they think works with this group of kids and what doesn't. They've been a great asset to me.

Ben Bernanke

Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.

I'm excited about having an opportunity to coach another position directly. It doesn't worry me in any way. ... I just want to be able to contribute my part and be an asset to the program.

Robert Pittman

I met with Ted during that same period and supposedly he was very unhappy, but he was very focused, had lots of ideas, lots of things he wanted to get done. I think in this world there's some confusion about roles. There shouldn't be. Ted Turner is Ted Turner. Ted Turner is going to do what he was doing on a broader canvas, in terms of having division of this company and division of the assets he knows something about as well as contributing to the other assets...I think he's very valuable to us and every interaction I've had with Ted has been very positive.

I have not seen a better fundamental atmosphere for gold since the early 1980s. This metal is increasingly being viewed as an asset class and an alternative asset. It is also a flight-to-safety vehicle and an inflation hedge.

Kate Warne

I hadn't expected BP Amoco to be really in the market for acquisitions this quickly, ... What it tells me is that they have done a faster job of consolidation of Amoco's assets and they feel very comfortable going forward.

In 1997, investors were going for the sizzle around the world; this time they're going for the steak, ... The United States is the supertanker economy and assets in the United States represent good value.

It's a meager year for bond returns compared to what may be in the offing in other asset classes.

It literally failed overnight from fraud. Half the assets were completely gone. A lot of retirees lost their money.

It's difficult so far to get a total picture of the damage. But we do have a lot of people on the ground and people need to feel very secure down there that the state and FEMA are ready to respond with all those pre-positioned assets that we've been talking about.

It's discouraging. What we see is little change in the assets of the typical American household between 2001 and 2004, after substantial increases in the previous six years.