Famous Quotes & Sayings

People always seem to buy today on what they should have bought five years earlier. We are bullish on the out of favor asset class: U.S. equities.

Our goals of utilizing our global assets to maximize international growth can only be fully realized with this exciting new structure.

Manuel Pangilinan

Our impression is that it requires a lot of investments in infrastructure. We're not certain if it's best to just buy the assets rather than the company itself, given the history of these companies.

Over the last few years, we've had a number of clients liquidate a portion of their stock portfolios and move it to real estate. Real estate has become an asset class with its own momentum, and it is natural for strategists to write about it.

Jack Rio

Over the last 10 years, Mike has been a major contributor to some very productive offenses. Mike brings toughness, experience and passion. He will certainly be a tremendous asset to me and our offensive staff as we continue our pursuit of a championship.

Overseas Chinese control, by my estimate, $2 trillion of liquid assets that can be mobilized instantly to punt on anything from European football games to Shanghai property. This source of money is both the boon and the bane of China's economic development.

Over time, over history, it has always been a market that people have turned to when there has been an element of uncertainty in other asset classes. It's a question of diversification.

P. A. M. was able to produce more revenue with fewer assets in an asset-intensive business such as trucking.

Chris Murphy

P&O is a strategic asset in terms of the ports in the Far East.

Our funding currently is project finance which is only 12 years and we are building an asset which will last 55, 75 or possibly even 100 years and we would like to match that tenure.

Our automation tools will be utilized, so if we're doing mapping, for example, it will create precise maps of the roadways -- if we're doing asset management, where trying to find road signs in imagery, we have software to do that ? if we're utilizing imagery to find 3D models, we have patented tools that can do that with imagery.

Our assets are run to (match) the Lehman Bros. Long Liabilities Index. The new bonds will be part of the index. We will have to buy them at some point.

Our Asset Management Services division is an important part of our Group. Over the last decade, we have built a significant international distribution capability, which delivers investment solutions to institutional investors and their consultants. Our strategy is to harness this capability to provide an enhanced range of investment solutions in the future.

Our borrowing capacity has been completely exhausted. We have no more assets to pledge.

Our bookstore is merging with Barnes and Noble and also brining Starbucks Coffee on campus as well. That will be a great asset to the students as well as the community. We hope to begin construction on the new bookstore sometime this fall.

Jeff Smith

Steve said he ran out of running rail where the gap appeared, otherwise it would have been easier and, in my view, that was a good performance beating horses like Asset and Close To You.

States are required to return money and other assets obtained through corruption to the country from which they were stolen.

Splitting up the assets makes infinite sense, not only from a financial perspective but from an operating perspective or competitive perspective.. No one wants market dominance to take place. The shipping community certainly doesn't want it, even the competing railroads out West don't want it.

Stan O'Neal has been a great asset on the GM Board and to General Motors management over his 5 years of service as a director. We are grateful for his many positive contributions to General Motors and wish him the best.

Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negative returns in the double digits are not uncommon.

Adrienne Warren

Looking past the short-term price risk inherent in essentially any asset -- real or financial -- there is little doubt that housing represents a good long-term investment. Since the mid-1950s, real home prices in Canada have increased, on average, just over two per cent per year . Of course, home ownership also carries intrinsic value beyond its investment potential, including lifestyle benefits.

Steve Austin

I think they're on to something, ... They've really worked to try to make this an asset not only to Wilmore but to Jessamine County and the rest of the region.

It is a surprise in timing. People were expecting a restructuring of the assets some time before the end of the year.

Simon Anholt

It is a promise of quality and a licence to charge more money for your product -- very often it is the most important asset of a company.

It is a serious issue and an unusual one. There will be a permanent need for more rail, truck and barge assets to move fuel around.

Just because your assets are going up doesn't mean your net worth is going up.

Just as they hold fixed income assets to diversify the risk of stocks, participants should hold Roth savings to diversify the risks associated with pre-tax savings.

Japanese individual investors continue to shun risk, and the notion of putting money into foreign assets is repugnant.

Isiah Thomas

Jerome was a big asset in our rebuilding program, and he was great with our young players. But this was a tremendous opportunity to save more than $21 million.

I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.

Land prices have been recovering and expectations for rising asset values are still high. On top of that, warehouse companies are benefiting from the expansion of the domestic economy.

David Stern

I think Dave has a very keen understanding of assets and their values. I understood him (buying the Blues) as a sign of great confidence he had in the new NHL model and ... that he thought he would be able to buy the team and profit on it. And I have no doubt that he will.

I think Dr. Proulx will be a great asset for the students and the community.