Famous Quotes & Sayings

Masaki Iso

The policy shift will highlight the strength of Japan's economic growth. A recovery in asset prices will be a big long-term plus for shares, especially for banks.

Misha Collins

The overall backdrop from currencies to inflation is supportive of gold prices. There has been a change in investors' perspective on commodities as an investment class and gold is an attractive asset to get into.

David Malpass

People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth more than your house or your stock portfolio. As people decide whether they're going to buy a car, they're more concerned about whether they have a job and are likely to have a job next year.

Vladimir Potanin

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

Eric Betzig

In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.

Dale T. Mortensen

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.

Bernard Ebbers

We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Ban Ki-moon

The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

Sumner Redstone

We have made a strategic decision that the future of Viacom lies in maximizing the value and potential of our core entertainment assets. The sale of our education, professional and reference publishing businesses will further refine that focus on software-driven entertainment, unlock the substantial value of these undervalued publishing assets for our shareholders and dramatically improve our capital structure.

Jon Thorn

The outlook for the remaining quarters of the year is quite clear and the momentum will be continued. Generating such cash flows will help the company in its plans to make its refinery the world's largest.

Keith Collins

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading,

Vance Coffman

We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cash generation is unacceptable for Lockheed Martin.

Rafael Ramirez

We are not handing out cash in any of these deals. The state's shares are class A, the majority and with a different power of decision-making.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

Birdman

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Zac Efron

Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

Walter Smith

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

Walter Smith

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

Vonda Shepard

I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.

Clay Shirky

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

Don Rickles

I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.

Emilia Fox

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

Carrie Underwood

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

Daddy Yankee

Our aim is to establish El Cartel as not just another tequila but part of the club and party lifestyle. There are several songs where I mention the brand name, and a lot of these party songs go hand in hand with the concept of Cartel Tequila.

John C. Calhoun

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Marianne Williamson

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

Anthony Burgess

When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract

Mike Nichols

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Lolo Jones

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

Jeff Nelson

We're locked into a gas contract right now that's fairly cheap, but we know it's going to go up. We could save $200,000 a year.

John Borden

We're like a balloon. We expand, we contract to fit the needs of the various programs we're in. That is not fun.

Herb Hunter

There are people disappointed out there. We thought the last five and a half years of the ESOP would make a difference in these contract negotiations.

Richard Kaplan

We have very little tolerance on this, ... While they're doing what they need to do, we are doing what we need to do. We're not resting until this is resolved with or without First Student.

Mitchel McLaughlin

If this situation is not resolved satisfactorily, he will not travel.

Meta Minton

It seems like (the mistake) happened, was not ignored, and resolved immediately.

George Somerwill

The situation has been resolved and everyone has been released,

Michael Davies

I really thought this would have been resolved a while ago.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Janice Miller

Where do I sign up? I can't wait.

Gloria Steinem

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Kareena Kapoor Khan

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Jayne Middlemiss

You know what you are signing up for when you become involved,

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Kelly Chesney

Voters need to read the petitions. Don't sign anything unless you know what it says.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

Henry Ford

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

Matthew Yglesias

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Jack Canfield

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Green Day

Yeah f**k me! I wish all of you could fu**k me!

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

Ludwig von Mises

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Charles Spurgeon

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Al Stewart

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Al Pacino

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Caitlin Moran

I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.

Bryan Davis

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.