Quotes about Leverage

He's trying to increase his leverage on Time Warner, trying to force them to do something a little more drastic than they appear willing to do.

Peter Jankovskis

Individual employers have too much power and leverage.

Greg Schell

They've demonstrated the ability to integrate properties and aggressively de- leverage in the past, so I'm not too concerned with their ability to execute.

Jim Walden

We're able to leverage a lot of that experience about how to take social networking and put it on a device.

Sky Dayton

It really boiled down to two companies that saw an opportunity and (a way) we could both leverage assets.

Jonathan Sehring

Right now we're at the mercy of the Transit Authority. We've given up our leverage.

Randy Nevels

They need to generate community interest in the actual development project and then establish a business model that can leverage the benefits of that community.

Tony Iams

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

Lloyd Wood

We can leverage, leverage, leverage. Two million pulls down eight million.

George Cofer

Debt is plentiful and cheap. There's egregious use of leverage. And you have the introduction of a new class of buyers that artificially buoys demand and inflates prices.

Doug Kass

It's a benefit (employees) couldn't get on their own because they are an employee of this (bank) customer. We leverage our relationship with our customers.

Jeff Clark

These bids have not been driven by an overarching vision or an attempt to foster innovation in the industry. They have been largely driven by attempts to leverage the cash flow of European telecom operators.

Lars Godell

It's ironic to me, ... that as a boss, all of our leverage comes from our people, yet we very seldom focus on where those people are at, what their needs are and what it would take for them to excel in their performance.

Bob Rosner

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.

Jay Ritter

We shouldn't expect the world to change overnight. Enterprises want to leverage existing investments.

Lawrence Byrd

Ten-percent growth in software is a very good number. That's the kind of thing we want to see. That's where [Gerstner is] getting leverage. That's where he's cementing the future of the company.

Daniel Kunstler

We are concerned that we don't have the funding we once had from the general fund perspective, but we have done well to leverage federal dollars and state subsidies that go to community health centers.

Loretta Fuddy

We do not have influence or leverage to convince the Chinese to change their regulation or refrain from enforcing them.

Jack Krumholtz

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Dave Combs

The biggest criticism against Disney is that it hasn't used strategic acquisitions to leverage franchises.

Jeffrey Logsdon

You can leverage the heck out of your equity.

Brian O'keefe

We continue to believe Fairchild is an early stage restructuring story with the most gross margin leverage in the group.

Tim Luke

We need to get some leverage from the federal government. There's a lot that can be done, and I believe our congressman should do something about it.

Al Weed

It would give the DNR another pot of money to use as leverage as sportsmen in Indiana become more and more dependent on public land for hunting and fishing opportunities.

Kyle Hupfer

This legislation would deprive the U.S. of a source of leverage, such as was used to gain the release of our citizens held hostage in Iran.

Stuart Eizenstat

We are pretty proud that we were able to leverage a different set of influencers.

Joyce Bordash

We also generated significant positive cash flow, which we will leverage to fuel the profitable growth of our business going forward.

Joan Hooper

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

Sumner Redstone

The only leverage we have for bad pay is embarrassment.

Richard Ferlauto

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.

Joel Fox

Private equity firms still have huge funds to invest. The boom will keep going and they will do bigger and bigger deals until the leverage market has a correction.

Tom Cooper

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Michael Myers

It is hardest to find people in the Web marketing area. People with a good understanding of the Web infrastructure—who know how to leverage it—are a little harder to find.

Arun Sinha

It's giving us added leverage to use in our discussions and negotiations, but it's not a foregone conclusion that it will be implemented.

Claudia Piccinin

There's no way that I can sit across the table from somebody whose main bargaining leverage is that he isn't complying with the existing agreement. That has to be cleared up first.

Gordon Ritchie

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

Brendan Barnicle

When you only have the 49th pick to deal with, you don't have much leverage, ... We had some conversations, but nothing really came close to getting into the first round.

Ernie Grunfeld