Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Barrett

Some people, like myself, consider life beginning at conception. For me, besides my education, my morals and ethics are the most important assets I bring to my job.

Some people think that December 31 is the cutoff for assets but you can make changes up until you file your application,

Speculators took the words as a signal that China with its massive $760 billion of U.S. dollar reserves may move to diversify some of its assets into euros.

Bob's leadership within professional services and customer support, and Chad's extensive marketing and product management experience, are great assets to TAZZ Networks, enabling us to expand and support our growing customer and partner bases. I am confident that 2006 will be a breakthrough year for TAZZ and that both Bob and Chad will play instrumental roles in expanding our leadership position in the policy control market.

They sent people to help us out. They helped us get all those assets lined up.

This is an attractive opportunity for Talisman and is a logical continuation of Talisman's successful business model. These assets materially enhance Talisman's production growth profile and offer significant cash generation potential.

With commodity returns outperforming other assets in recent years, pension and hedge funds are expected to increase investments in commodity markets.

While it is always a difficult decision to eliminate staff, this is the right thing to do for the business. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, these changes will make us a nimbler, more flexible organization that is closer to our customers and better positioned to optimize our assets and increase profitability and shareholder value.

With our value strategy, assets located in major global markets, long- term customers, and talented and dedicated employees, I am confident that we will capture future opportunities in the markets in which we compete.

With the assets and resources we do have, we have a good plan.

Reaching $1 billion in assets shows we have the right formula for growth.

Private investors are basically selling their smaller assets and consolidating to fewer, larger assets through 1031 exchanges. On the flip side, a lot of institutional investors are reshaping their portfolios. They are disposing of whatever doesn't fit their long-term plans, leveraging the current record buyer demand and record pricing.

The tech sector is where the money seems to want to flow. You can just look at last week's action, when all the averages were up, the money flows into technology, primarily in telecommunications. And even though the valuations have been high all of these quarters and still are, I guess if you want to do well in the market you've got to have some of your assets in technology, definitely.

The teams bring diverse assets to the table. Some bring expertise in retail and residential developments; some offer experience in the design of large public infrastructure projects; others are best known for designing museums and cultural institutions.

The teams bring diverse assets to the table,

The Taylor family is one of the great assets of St. Louis, ... We just wouldn't have the kind of community we have in St. Louis if we didn't have people who had done well economically and made generous gifts.

The specialty of this company is that they move and position those big drillers that you see in the ocean, the platforms. Big oil companies have not been too successful in finding oil elsewhere, so they'll go farther into the ocean. And another thing is the breakup value; the assets are worth more than the stock. One value player figures that it's worth $66 on the assets alone.

The terrible effects of the earthquake, and the human tragedy that has resulted, have resulted in a major international assistance effort and I am confident that our responsive and valuable assets will contribute a great deal to that relief effort,

It's a team effort. The DoD has a unique set of assets that, when needed, could be used to support the national response.

It was difficult to lose assets like that, especially people who have been with you for so long,

They're not chartbusters, and that's what gets funds noticed. (But) there are plenty of funds that haven't garnered a lot of assets and are good investment vehicles all the same.

They're not chartbusters, and that's what gets funds noticed, ... (But) there are plenty of funds that haven't garnered a lot of assets and are good investment vehicles all the same.

These are very vulnerable people with all their worldly assets on the move and often without men, for example women and children, or without their clans - their normal structures of protection.

These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.

The scale of victory was a surprise and that had a positive impact on Japanese stocks. There will be a bigger pull to buy Japanese assets over foreign bonds and stocks.

Granted, they're not taking property, but they're taking control of a portion of my property, ... They're seizing control of the assets of my property.

For the most part, bar codes are better at collecting data in highly structured and engineered processes, such as warehouses, and this will likely continue for the next five to seven years. However, RFID tags will be used for data collection of mobile assets and in largely chaotic or unstructured business processes, ranging from retail environments to hospitals, enabling these environments that lack sophisticated process engineering or controls to be systematically managed.

For the first time since August 2001, the Treasury will attempt to ease the pain for pension funds and insurance companies who need long assets to pay for a growing number of baby boomers.

All of the assets in our portfolio are performing well and offer promise for the future and I continue to be excited about the potential for the group.

And as we know, the Indians and the Chinese are buying assets everywhere in the world.

The market is closely watching out for the report as a way of seeing the progress that oil companies and refiners are making in getting their assets back online,

The emerging market dollar denominated debt market is going away, and at the same time there are a lot of invested assets chasing the little yield that is left. More and more of the focus is on which bond will be bought back next.

The information and tips we receive that leads to inmate recoveries is invaluable. It's prohibitive for us to search every probate court record to track down these things down. We don't have the recourses so we rely on information from others. It's not uncommon for an officer of the court to contact us in these situations. But the size of the assets recovered in this case does make it somewhat unusual.