Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Finkelstein

Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.

Nicholas Jarecki

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.

Brian Billick

We've always talked about the pressure from the outside and contrasting that with Terrell Suggs . If that's a nickel role, you're talking 15-25 snaps. He's capable of doing more, but we have a lot of assets here to balance that out. If we can use him more, we will.

Eric Schmidt

We're going to put our assets together so we can leverage one another's distribution,

What they'll be marketing to Wall Street is asset value and growth potential.

Carl Icahn

Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.

Paul Allaire

With this transaction, Xerox greatly enhances its liquidity and has made significant progress on its turnaround pledge to generate more than $2 billion in asset sales,

Jeff Probst

Would they see them as an asset or would they be threatened by them and vote them off right away? ... We love to force the castaways to make decisions.

Would it surprise me that they would change their whole asset allocation dramatically? That would be more surprising.

We've got assets that we bring to the table that no one else has. That allows us to be able to compete in a world where at first blush people say it's impossible for independents to come in and survive, much less sustain, and be around for long periods of time.

We believe year-end redemptions drove a 10% decline in average assets under management to $3 billion.

We believe this process will lead to the maximization of value of Enron's core energy assets and the mitigation of risk by removing viable operations out from under Chapter 11, ... fire sale.

U.S. travel businesses and organizations must move quickly to realize the value of their industry-exclusive .travel Internet domain in the global context. Protecting our nation's valuable tourism assets can be done by simply registering them with their .travel domain names.

WorldCom will consider any serious offer but it is highly unlikely we would consider selling any of our core assets such as MCI or local assets.

Working together we will create the new Commerce Virtual Private Bank, the next great idea in building customer relationships. Our dynamic Virtual Private Bank will enable our customers to bring all of their Commerce assets together and link them to the assets and liabilities they have with any of more than 3,400 financial providers around the world.

We feel as a long-term strategy having a portion of assets hedged is reasonable.

Through a gift of marketing, he has promoted the cause of watching hate groups. He has very successfully gained the assets to place the Southern Poverty Law Center on solid financial ground

With very strong overall performance early in the quarter, we are seeing flows into the industry pick up once again, in contrast to the recent trend of assets remaining on the sidelines.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

Jim Yong Kim

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Richard Kinder

We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

We determined that it is in Elrod's best interests not to go through the rigors of a full season of games and travel, ... We are exploring ways for Elrod to continue to be an asset to the organization.

The profit rise was within expectations as the lender experienced solid growth based on good asset quality.

We have a number of traditional commercial lists for the rental market, but we also look at those names and the information associated with them as a tremendous database asset that's more synergistically tied to advertising. When this database enhances the leads we provide to advertisers, its value is much, much greater than it is as a revenue source for renting names.

We are talking about assets that in some cases were purchased a decade before the fund existed. If the attorney general could prove those assets were purchased with coin-fund assets, it would be a miracle in the courtroom.

We are taking steps to preserve our assets for the benefit of our creditors and stockholders.

E. O. Wilson

This really creates a new breed of core business for these guys. This is the kind of asset that they will be working for 30 years.

James Dolan

This 'pure-play' company will be well positioned for continued growth. We have long believed the value of these scarce assets was not fully reflected in Cablevision's stock price, and will be more readily recognized in a stand-alone company.

David Greene

This project will be a tremendous asset to our community. As experiences with similar facilities have shown, the ILC could generate more than 8,000 jobs in Winter Haven and Polk County as companies establish nearby warehousing, manufacturing and logistics operations.

We hope to think (he'll be back in time for Arkansas). Matt has worked very hard on the rehab. Obviously, he'll be a tremendous asset back to the ball club.

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

We have so many different players who can be assets in so many different positions for us. It's just a matter of getting the right players in there at the right time.

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.