Traded Quotations

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

We're moving forward with him as our point guard. We traded for him to be our point guard, to be our leader and that really hasn't changed. We really haven't reached that point yet to where trading Steve Francis.

Very few educational institutions have filed corporate governance or social responsibility proxy proposals at publicly traded companies in recent years. The reason for this is not clearalthough the general decline in campus protest efforts is sometimes cited as the cause.

World oil prices jumped again this week as the price of crude oil traded above $63 per barrel. Seasonal maintenance being performed at gasoline refineries will temporarily limit gasoline production. The near future will probably continue to show lots of ups and downs, and traders react to news of almost any sort.

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

We were at the tail-end of a championship run. Instead of letting that run naturally just play out and transpire, we abruptly traded good players and artificially created an upper-level in our farm system.

The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

We are taking this step to secure permanent capital to grow; to share ownership broadly among our employees now and through future compensation; and to permit us to use publicly traded securities to finance strategic acquisitions that we may elect to make in the future.

When I got traded here, I knew it wasn't going to be a problem and nothing has changed. We're 1-A and 1-B lines. I can't say enough good things about him.

When I heard I got traded to the White Sox I was really excited because I know they are a world championship team and I know they are trying to do it again. I know Kenny Williams has done a great job of keeping the team together and adding some pieces like Jim Thome.

Last year they were right on nine out of 11 traded categories. They were wrong on Best Picture and Best Director.

Silver Surges on exchange traded fund hopes. There is a serious risk that the silver price could ramp up by 25 per cent over the next couple of months, driven by supply concerns.

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

Mulder surprised me more than Hudson. I wasn't surprised that Hudson got traded because we only had him for a year more. We had Mulder for a couple more. Billy is not one to have a couple good years and then completely start over. He saw an opportunity to get some quality guys and he jumped on it. It's really paid off. It's pretty amazing.

More detailed rules and measures are needed to beef up corporate governance. Now investors are eager to know when new share sales can resume and whether big-cap companies traded overseas will come back.

More teams have traded for or signed center fielders, so the market is clearer. Our absolute priority is to bring Johnny back.

Natural gas is traded on a national market. The utilities here in California don't have any control over the price of gas.

Obviously, the numbers were down last year. When I got traded here, I just thought it was an opportunity to bring some leadership, to bring some playmaking ability to the defense. We're playing pretty good right now, but we have a long way to go.

Petroleum earnings go up and down with the volatility in the openly and globally traded commodities in which we deal. ... History teaches us that punitive measures hastily crafted in reception to short-term market manipulations, will likely have unintended negative consequences including creating disincentives for investment.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

I wouldn't have traded places with the provincial reps who didn't make it. It was a difficult situation, but you make the best of it and move on.

I didn't want to leave. I played my first game as an 18-year-old here and I got traded on my 36th birthday.

I don't even remember facing him. I think I might have faced him once when I got traded in 2003. He can do what he does. I'm going to make my living regardless of what he says or what he does. I never met the guy, so I don't even care. If he's going to do that, it just makes him look bad.

But we would have traded all the awards for a chance to still be playing.

I'm always traded and moving, ... I'd like to stay in one place, and I'd like to stay here.

I felt really bad when I got traded because I was switching to a team I hadn't played before in a new league. But I want to thank all the people of Montreal, when I was there they really embraced me and made me feel very welcome.

For years, rich older men have traded in their wives for pretty young women with bigger 'attributes'.

From the sounds of it, I mean, you can't help but think some of those things. At the same time, you've got to wait. No one's ever traded until they're actually traded.

If it's a long process to turn things around here then I probably would look at going somewhere else, whether it's traded at the deadline or next year as a free agent.

We traded up to get him because Tony, because we all knew what he could be, ... We all understand the blueprint now. It's not hard. It's fun.

We traded Mike partly because we felt we might well lose him anyway and partly because if we kept them both, one of our key assets would have been on the bench for half our games.

We traded him to the Redskins for Jay Schroeder ... talk about really dumb moves. And I was the guy who led the charge on that one. I don't think Al will let another left tackle like him get away.

We traded baskets with them a little bit in the second half. We can't do that on the road and we can't do that down the line in the tournament.

We traded baskets with a team that likes to run up and down. They are a very good transition team. ... They were hitting everything.

We traded a lot, but we got back three quality players. Antoine Walker is one of the very best multi-faceted, versatile players in this game. ... He is able to handle the ball, pass it, make plays, shoot 3's and rebound the ball. There isn't anyone in this league better at doing that.

Historically there has not been a great rate of return on airline stocks for investors, which is why they have always traded at a severe discount to the markets. And there is no guarantee that the government is going to approve on all these mergers, which lends an air of caution to investing in the sector.

Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.

He was feeling real free, and we need that from him. That's what we expected when we traded for him, is that we'd have that versatility. Having a great game from Antoine really helps.

There are so many companies that are public now that I can't see everybody making it. I don't think some of these new publicly traded companies are going to survive.

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

I think the publicly traded companies will be very careful making acquisitions in the future and concentrate on operations versus being the largest. Currently, asking prices are too high relative to what publicly-traded companies are willing to pay.

I think that the initial down pressure came from that it was one of the most popular stocks being traded by individuals.

I was dying. Here is a guy, third overall, had a fairly productive college career. Now you're the third pick and you're in New Orleans and your career is just about shot. All of a sudden I'm traded to San Diego. You figure out the rest.

I think by any measure we are at a major bottom, but bottoms don't happen overnight. Stocks can hit a bottom and then trade sideways, go up and down as they adjust. But I'd be stunned if we traded more than 10 percent lower.

I think it was more joking than anything else. The fans know the game and what went on. To me, you get traded for a guy like that, it's a compliment, and it gives me an incentive to keep working hard.

It happens all the time in baseball these days, trades, moving around. It happened to me in '98 as a young kid getting traded to the White Sox. It's business. You've got to understand that. If it would have happened, it would have happened and I would have made the best of it.

It is not an intelligent move to adjust exchange rates according to volumes traded while there is a serious scarcity of foreign currency on the official market.

I went from thinking I might get traded to thinking I was not getting traded to being traded. For the guys who might get traded, it's like a roller-coaster day and you can't do anything about it. It's not a fun day.

I think the whole reason why they traded for me was to become a playoff-contending team and to take a lot of pressure off the rookie. I've done so thus far. There's been a lot of attention that our opponents have put on me, and he's been able to get rebounds that way and score easy baskets. That's built his confidence.

It is apparent that they never had any intention of applying filters, the bare minimum they needed to continue to operate the system. Their response is an insult to the court, the public and all artists whose work is being illegally traded on the system.

I saw the team that I was traded to and I just figured we were good enough to get in the playoffs. I still feel we have a championship caliber team. We're in the playoffs and now our goal is to win the whole thing. Everybody on this team is committed. We're going to walk the walk.

I remember when I got traded there. I think my third game, I had four assists and I never made it outside our blue line. I still don't know how I got four assists that night.

People also changed their plans and timelines. They traded in older cars that didn't get good mileage sooner than they had planned.

Retail gasoline prices have moved higher against a backdrop of increased crude oil prices. A year ago, crude oil traded at $49 a barrel and gas prices averaged $1.792--49 cents lower than the current average of $2.283. This week, crude hovers around $66 a barrel.

My whole point this season was to prove to Boston they made a good choice when they picked me up. It was nice tonight especially after I started with Toronto and they kind of gave up on me and traded me.

I think if he was traded because of any potential talks with Playboy or anything like this, then that's a dirty, nasty, rotten trick. That's really a freedom-of-speech infringement on me. He's my husband. I'm his wife. He's not responsible for what I do and I'm not responsible for what he does. I have my own career, and it should be separated.

I think I was getting too old for them, ... The new girl is 21 so, yeah, that must be it. They quite literally traded me in for a younger model - slightly less bags and slightly less cellulite.

I thought Jason was great. I love him as a point guard. I wouldn't have traded for him if I didn't. And I thought Wade was really good. He was magnificent.

Just because I got traded doesn't mean we'll be able to compete with the Spurs and the Pistons right away.

Management traded away whatever they felt would improve the team.

We've traded below $80 (per hundredweight) live. Prices have weakened through the summer.

I wasn't that shocked, I had heard the rumors that something could happen, so it wasn't out of the blue. I think that if Billy were going to trade me, he was going to make a conscious effort to trade me somewhere where my family would be happy. And there isn't another place that I'd rather be traded to than Atlanta.

I would have traded all that for a win in this game.

I would never have traded him. I would have waited until the next draft if need be and found out how good a baseball player he was.

Mike had been looking for a new contract and really had endured a lot of unfair criticism for holding out in Green Bay and a lot of people questioned his decision. He got the last laugh. In effect, he got traded and he got the new contact that he wanted. For those people that were knocking and ridiculing him for holding out and questioning his logic, he landed with the team that he was real excited about playing for and he landed a contract that he felt comfortable with and pays him like the elite corners in the league.

While (Wilma won't affect) the oil sector, expect the insurance, retail and construction sectors to be heavily traded this week. With the October Consumer confidence and home sales due out later, the U.S. market could well end up deep in the red as inflation keeps the pressure on.

With all the discussion about me being traded or cut has helped me realize that the contract I have ran out of guarantees the day I was injured. Therefore each year they pay you to play is a gift. I expect that if there are no changes to my present contract, then I should prepare for a year-by-year commitment. When I am ready to hit the field this year, wherever it may be, I plan on being better than ever and enjoying the ride.

Valuations have gotten relatively lofty in all six publicly traded exchanges. Nasdaq is the best buy of the six. It's a cost-cutting story. The opportunity to take share should extend through 2006 and 2007.

Unlike our trade remedy laws, where all producers of an unfairly traded product get relief, (the Byrd Amendment) funnels money to a select few.

We got the win. They played great and we just kind of traded baskets with them until the end.

We got off to a rough start in New York where I wasn't playing too much. Going to Washington I was having fun playing hockey again but got hurt. I got traded to L.A. and everything was a downward spiral.

We have a verbal understanding that they won't trade him or think about trading him until the (July 31st) trading deadline. I've got a verbal understanding with Kevin Towers that Dave won't be traded .Ê.Ê. unless somebody wants him at the trading deadline. I'm under the understanding that won't change.

You do it all the time. People get traded and you play against your ex-teammates all the time, so you're used to it.

The outsize rally in the publicly traded debt for companies in this sector suggests that the bond market is sending a signal that the communications equipment sub-sector is particularly attractive at present relative to other technology sub-sectors,

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.

Wal-Mart carries a lot of electronics and Christmas was coming up, so we decided to go with it. We traded stocks once a week and would check our portfolios almost every day.

We only traded down to $0.6855 over the weekend but went down to $0.6842 this morning, so elements of people were trying to force it down before Asia came in, ... It's been bid up ever since.

The past couple years my name has popped up at the trade deadline, (and) I've been traded a couple of times already. I don't think about that. I just hope we get an agreement, get a deal done, and I can stay here.

When we traded Richie, the whole complexion of the team changed. We always seemed to be sitting back and trying to hit the home run. Now we've got guys in the lineup who work the counts, get on base and manufacture runs. That's the kind of baseball we want to play here.

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

When we traded for Denis, we obviously liked him and wanted him on our club. We knew his contract was up at the end of this year and he was going to be unrestricted so we pursued him and we were able to come to a deal.

But Jed and Ben both stated to me that there was no deal on the table for me right now, and they felt pretty strongly that I wouldn't be traded any time anywhere in the near future. They couldn't guarantee me security for the lifetime of the contract.

Both the CME and the CBOT reported record futures volume in 2005, and the attention these exchanges now attract as publicly traded companies helps keep the spotlight on the growth and importance of the futures industry.

You can't contend for a division title without a shortstop. We got a guy who has been an All-Star, has three years left on his contract and Boston will pay about 50 percent of it. That's why we traded Andy.

We had a situation where we knew Alex was going to be traded -- but we had to wait and see where he would end up. So we had an oral understanding, a bridge.

We wanted to come out with a lot of energy, and get on (Mundelein) as soon as possible. I thought we did that in the first quarter, but give Mundelein credit, they traded baskets with us for the most part.

The reason I took a discount is because I love playing here and I want to stay here my whole career. They (agents) worried that I would be traded to a small-market team like the Royals or Devil Rays.

The recent stock price fluctuations remind us of the old days (pre-1999) when Qualcomm's earnings outlook was cloudy and the stock traded more on speculation than fact.

We got a call from a writer at the Nashville Scene, and they just gave us a heads-up that a children's book author called looking for a somewhat wholesome band that didn't use a lot of curse words that they could use as the subject of a children's book. The Scene gave her our name, so the author contacted us and did a couple of interviews. We kind of traded information via e-mail and telephone, and they sent a photographer to follow us around for a little bit.

We kind of traded errors with them. We need to shore up our defense a little, but all-in-all, it was a good game against a good team.

This year is the first time since 1983-84 that small stocks have traded at a premium to big stocks.

We feel like with this trade we traded a lot, but we got back three quality players, ... Antoine Walker is one of the very best, multi-faceted, versatile players in this game.