Leverage Quotations

Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.

I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and appreciate that they leverage our platform to raise money for those in need. We continue to encourage giving in support of important causes, including Extra Life 2012.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.

I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.

Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.

I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.

We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.

The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions.

For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.

The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?

More companies are turning to Sager to manage key areas of their supply chain such as the shipment and procurement of inventory. By upgrading its MOVE solution, Sager has responded to the effects of this growing outsourcing trend. The company is taking calculated steps to deliver advanced services that leverage technology to satisfy growing customer requirements and differentiate itself in the marketplace.

My advice is for Y2K managers to leverage the relationships they've built. They should look for opportunities to drive a business process within the company such as a sales force automation or supply chain management project.

One of the keys to success in the corporate world is companies need to leverage those differences in the work place.

One of the challenges for private equity, which we've been working hard on, is how to get the leverage into the deals in China. That historically has been a barrier and inhibited deal size.

NCR and Microsoft are long-term retail industry partners, ... This certification allows us to more fully leverage Microsoft technologies in order to provide retailers worldwide with best-in-class software solutions that are easy to deploy and support.

I would have to believe at this point that bidders who are serious players, to the extent they've already done their due diligence, this is not a surprise. What it could do is tip the balance more to the buyer, give them a little more leverage on the price.

Obviously you're delivering in color but ... we're not seeing the leverage on the top line or the bottom line. I mean obviously a lower tax rate helped quite a bit in the quarter.

Online stock trades are $9.99 - period - no strings attached. This is only part of the value proposition, though. From trading tools to investment planning, clients can tailor the level of service that fits their needs. As we develop these new offerings, we believe we have a unique opportunity to leverage the core strengths that made us a leader with active traders and apply those to the long-term investor and advisor segments.

One of the big benefits of an enterprise CRM solution is the ability to access vital customer data, regardless of device or locale. Onyx customers in the United States, Europe or Japan can now access and leverage customer data in real time. This is of great interest not only to our enterprise-level Japanese customers, but also to our multi-national customers with worldwide operations.

More people are entering the labor force, so there is more competition. More competition means there's less leverage for employees.

Now that we've accomplished the monumental task of restructuring, our next focus will be on incrementally improving our operations. Going forward we will be challenging ourselves to operate as efficiently as possible, leverage our core strengths and bring customer service to the highest levels of performance.

If they had been part of our union, they might not be in the position they are in today. They did not have company-wide leverage in the discussions about their future. USW workers are protected because we have company-wide leverage. It's the breadth of our representation throughout the company that gives us more strategic bargaining leverage.

Learn.com is dedicated to strengthening America's global competitiveness by improving the quality of education both in the classroom and online regardless of the size of the institution. We believe that providing cutting- edge tools to promote lifelong learning through the proper academic channels can help build strong, educated communities. We believe that facilitating these institutions' ability to extend programs to e-learning based delivery will allow them to leverage already overtaxed assets including faculty and facilities.

Last year, we took several steps to improve the financial profile of the Company, and we now enter 2006 with a stronger financial position and the operating leverage that supports investment into later-stage clinical programs. Specifically, our financial strength enables us to invest comprehensively in VX-950 and develop this product candidate to its full clinical and commercial potential. We are committed to maintaining the trajectory toward a 2008 NDA filing for VX-950.

When two Muslims go into business, they are encouraged to go in as equals. Debt is prohibited, as one party would have leverage over another. In an Islamic business deal, both parties share the risk.

Leverage has been a profitable trade in the past and it has allowed many closed-end funds to deliver very compelling yields, but the risk is your total return could suffer. Leverage can cut both ways; it can magnify your gains but it can also accentuate your losses. ... On the flip side, if you are delving into these more unusual strategies, one could argue the closed-end format lends itself to them pretty well, because your manager is not having to redeem shares everyday.

Minority investors, which would be all American investors, just don't have any leverage to enforce management to act in the best interest of shareholders.

Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.

Many majority owners in recent deals have tried to reduce their equity position and cash calls through minority position. There is a risk that in the sense that if things go poorly the minority owners can leverage or force out the majority owner.

So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits -- I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.

Sentencing is prolonged to exercise some leverage over the defendants. I don't think the defendants are in any great hurry either. If they testify, the chances of the government coming to bat for them later on for a reduction in sentence is greatly enhanced.

Seagate is excited about the opportunity to achieve greater scale, reduce supply chain costs, and leverage combined R&D efforts across a broader product set. With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

The only leverage we have for bad pay is embarrassment.

When I hear people like Wes Hayes say in the appeal that the tribe is trying to use video poker as leverage to get a bingo game at Santee, in some sense that's right.

Knowledge networks will revolutionize the global economy. They will change the way we think, learn and work. The prosperity of a nation and its industries will be determined to a large degree by how well they can leverage the global knowledge networks to develop their resources, collaborate, innovate, and market their products and services

Hans-Olov's work at Volvo demonstrates great insight about brand strength and connecting with customers, ... We'd like to leverage that wisdom across the company. At the same time, we know it's important for him to stay involved with Volvo, one of our Company's greatest success stories.

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Given all the leverage that the household sector has built up, their confidence in rising home equity has been an important part of their willingness to take on all that (mortgage) debt.

Friendly mergers can really derive leverage and value for the shareholders and for the employees. Both companies will work together to plan an integration strategy, and the value of a merger really only comes in the post-merger integration.

Getting a foothold on the DVD market really gives you leverage in the TV market,

I don't understand how IE 4.0 is going to win. My conclusion is we must leverage Windows more. We should first think of an integrated solution.

I had outside leverage as the fullback went to the flat. I didn't think he was going to throw it. He threw it and I went and grabbed it and scored.

Certainly, it's a possibility that the filing of those initiatives was intended as leverage almost as a mirror image of what we did in 2004.

Cash buyers carry more leverage when it comes to negotiating a deal.

Building the infrastructure with no revenue coming in has been difficult for companies. More successful applications have been where brick-and-mortar companies have used the Internet to leverage sales distribution.

I do not support a single-payer system; I do support having something there, whether it's an option or not. And we can work with that, but we have to have something to leverage so we can get the insurance company to bring down their prices, and the only way to do that is to have an alternative there.

Because they (Delphi) have considerable leverage at a moment of bankruptcy is not the same as saying the UAW is out of the game.

Basically we call it caller ID on steroids. This is a great opportunity to leverage all of the technologies that they're already comfortable with.

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Today is a major step in cleaning up the past. This is a plan that will enable us to leverage our core brands and increase cash flow. I still believe the basic foundation of this enterprise -- our core brands -- is sound and has the opportunity to be as successful as ever.

Having him stand behind the bench is a great thing for the game of hockey, and we need that coming out of the lockout. He has so much pizzazz, and he brings so much leverage to the game that it's a perfect thing for the National Hockey League to have Wayne more involved.

Having identified these previously unknown mutations in key cancer causing genes, we will hopefully enable the development of small molecules and antibodies to regulate their abnormal function and thus inhibit the growth of cancerous cells. This collaborative study exemplifies exactly what our coalition was formed to do -- leverage our individual institution's expertise to collectively discover new druggable targets through genome sequencing and functional genomic analysis.

We're not working on spinning off any part of the business. They give good leverage points across the company, which are of value.

We told (Wolff) we wouldn't waste his time. We have too much respect for the county judge and the mayor. This has never been about leverage in South Florida. This is about finding a home for the Marlins.

Having a combined Strategic Planning and Business Development function will give us greater ability to leverage our focused business strategies and capitalize on market opportunities. Tom's broader responsibilities will further enhance his team's effectiveness in identifying future strategic opportunities. Our record results for 2005 underline the significant progress we have made in realigning the division, streamlining processes and strengthening the business. These two appointments mark a very positive step in the development of Deutsche Asset Management.

I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.

If we all have to buy a new device for the home that's a combination of a TV and PC, Sears is the largest seller of home appliances today in America. Whatever that appliance is, it's going to require installation, which would leverage their home services business.

If the Chinese think the embargo problem in Europe is creating leverage for them over here, it's not going to work.

Gretchen has incredibly active fans that are eager to connect with and experience her live. With Network LIVE, Gretchen can leverage one of the most powerful digital networks to connect and interact with her fans around the world.

He who feels pain when paying off debts is not fit to leverage on debts as an investment strategy

Historically, when you look at spikes in the natural gas price, this stock has been the most leverage to that phenomenon, ... So that's been our top pick for about the last two months or so now in the energy sector.

When they make an acquisition of another spirits competitor, they can leverage their infrastructure and marketing and merge central office functions. In this type of instance it can make sense to have related diversification.

He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there.

Keiretsu Forum is very unique among the various angel groups because of the diversity of deals we consider as well as the benefits provided by the close collaboration of our many chapters across the country. By sharing a common deal screening and due diligence process, we are able to leverage the broad knowledge and expertise of our hundreds of members nationwide when making individual investment decisions. Many of our members say that they have never seen anything like it.

Just when some thought that search as an acquisition channel had reached its limit, it continues to outpace the market. In order to succeed in this increasingly competitive environment, online retailers must find new and creative ways to intelligently leverage this channel.

Mass-mailing worms will often leverage issues in Office as part of their method of propagation. As such, I strongly advise that these patches be installed as soon as possible -- particularly within the enterprise where the e-mailing of Office documents is more commonplace and expected.

Marine drilling has got leverage into activity in the Gulf of Mexico and we think it's got the most leverage (to benefit from) an increase in the activity in the Gulf,

Some of the leverage has moved from the employer to the employee.

Our research confirms the increasing sophistication and buying power of our network. Members see The Outsourcing Institute as not only a source for best practices but this new research confirms the growing impact of The Outsourcing Institute as a global marketplace for the buying and selling of outsourcing services. For 2006 we are expanding this role even further with new programs designed to increase the interactivity of the community and leverage the buying power of our members.

Our real leverage has come from the fear that DeLay will not have a post to come back to. They are deathly afraid of a leadership election in January.

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.

Jeremy's real aggressive. He doesn't stop going. You have to get leverage on him first. If he takes off before you it's hard to get him.

Just another success story that we can leverage to bring more companies here.

Large caps have the most leverage and will perform better on the earnings front, which should translate into better price performance.

Large is no longer in charge, ... Leverage will belong to the nimble and the swift.

People are looking for ways to diversify. People are frightened by futures markets, don't understand them well, and the leverage makes them quite risky.

J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path, but we think J&J is taking a big risk with its strategy and that (Guidant) has more leverage than most believe.

Jeanne was one of the first people we thought of when we started our search for the CEO position. She is an exceptional leader who will help us fully leverage the trusted Wal-Mart brand.

Our initial efforts will focus on the German market, but in the months ahead we will leverage this technology to better serve markets around the world.

It is difficult to get in and out and to operate as a normal school. If the schools are to operate normally, we need the leverage in which to do so.

Jim Tracy is going to have some leverage this winter because there are going to be a number of openings,

J.P. Morgan had a fairly strong independent streak. In the last two-to-three years, they decided they were going to try to get their brand name out there to and leverage that into a business stream of revenue that would have allowed them to remain independent. It didn't work. Their second goal: If you can't do it internally, let's command an extreme premium for that brand name. And they did that. Chase paid top dollar.

I think the biggest challenge is trying to get the right player at the right price. I don't think it's a leverage issue. I think it's just trying to get the right player in the right deal and not pulling the trigger until we get that.

I think arena football (revenue-sharing model) is a trend in regards to sports that don't have competitive leverage to get guaranteed rights fee,

Retailers who plan properly can leverage capabilities across some of these smaller, closely located countries and gain a distinct advantage.