Quotes about Yielding

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde

Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Lao tzu

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

As a forecasting rule of thumb, the yield curve has been pretty good — but it may not be a good rule of thumb today.

Dorsey Farr

It's got to be the yen. That is the currency with the lowest yield and borrowers can be comfortable that the BOJ is not going to significantly boost their funding costs over the course of the year.

Daniel Katzive

Two miles north of Falfurrias a pickup heading north on 405 hit a car hauler that was carrying eight cars. That vehicle was headed south on 281. The pickup failed to yield and was struck by the car hauler.

Lisa Block

For 110 basis points, we believe it's not worth getting into high yield. On average, you're sliding six notches in the credit rating.

Dilip Parameswaran

We have been collecting yield data since 1996.

Steve Wik

They can't run out of U.S. exposure. They have Treasuries, cash, the whole yield curve, corporate bonds that they can invest in. They can even invest in paintings.

Stephen Jen

We need another bumper yield like we had last year or this is going to be a very difficult year to make ends meet.

Dale Nordquist

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

James Boswell

High-yield debt issued over the last couple of years has a record amount of lower-rated paper issued. We're expecting that in 2006 to 2008, a lot of that paper will start to default.

John Dionne

This is a breakthrough for farmers in the South. Farmers needed a good, high-yielding variety with multi-race SCN resistance.

Tim Foley

This is a positive for corporate balance sheets, ... They're able to restructure higher-yielding debt for debt at levels that we haven't seen in 45 years.

Ann Hurley

Better predictive tools will reduce the uncertainties involved in defeating very hard targets and therefore reduce the need for higher-yield weapons to overcome those uncertainties.

Irene Smith

The market continues to focus on the lack of yield in the euro-zone, keeping the euro on the defensive.

Charmaine Buskas

The flattening of the yield curve during the past year has made it challenging to increase net interest income.

Charles Dolezal

There was a sense that a year-end rally would take us higher, but there's some concern from the bond market flattening. The inverting of the yield curve would bring us more problems in 2006. We also have light volume, exaggerating moves to both sides.

Jay Suskind

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson

A major reason that Newton is able to deliver strong performance is that we have successfully combined a bottom-up stock selection process within a clear global thematic framework. Themes are Newton's interpretation of the major forces of global change, which results in a flexible approach to identifying areas likely to yield the best performing securities.

Helena Morrissey

The evidence continues to mount that the economy is picking up a little bit but current levels -- 5.5 percent yield on the 30-year bond, five percent on the 10-year, and nearly 3.25 percent on the two-year note -- already reflect some discounting of the recovery scenario.

Josh Stiles

I know the frustration you must feel, ... I feel it too?. I'm here to ask you not to yield, because there are still families that need a hospital in South Los Angeles, who deserve one, and who do, in fact, have one, battered as it may be.

Diane Watson

A flat yield curve affected our spread business, and transaction volume in domestic life insurance & retirement services and capital markets was lower as a result of regulatory and related issues.

Martin Sullivan

Heavy investments by Japanese firms, aimed at boosting their overseas operations and businesses, are now beginning to yield huge returns for them and this trend will not come to an end in the foreseeable future.

Osamu Katano

Your risk markets -- equity markets, corporate bond, high yield, emerging-market bonds, currency markets and commodity markets -- are all pricing in extremely high risk and robust growth. In contrast, the TIPs market is pricing in weak or modest growth.

John Brynjolfsson

It took us 20 years to identify (the gene) – I don't think it will take 20 years for the next one. They will yield their secrets sooner because of technology.

Craig Hanis

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Pope Paul Vi

You just can't find a AAA-rated corporate bond with a yield that high.

Sharon Lee

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Francis Herbert Bradley

The ECB has signaled that if there was any risk inflation expectations would run away, they would contain them. With this central bank rate-hike cycle, it may lead to a flat yield curve by April.

Kornelius Purps

Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yield the highest returns. It would have been a mistake to invest substantially when it was apparent that we would not be receiving great returns.

Mark Booth

The storms really threw a kink into our growing operations, especially around Immokalee. Some of the yield dropped by 80 percent.

Bob Spencer

We are pleased that our earnings and resulting strong cash flow enable us to provide an improved return to our shareholders in the form of dividends. Our goal is to ensure that our yield remains competitive. This increase is the eighth time since January 2003 we have raised the dividend, representing a 94 percent increase during that period.

David Kyle

[That's what Rockville, Md.-based Celera, a company that sets ambitious goals often unlikely to yield big financial returns in the short run, has set out to do.] This has been in the works for a long time, ... This was something that was always obvious to do as a next step.

Craig Venter

Clearly, as was the case with Continental, the fuel cost pressures are offsetting the yield performance entirely.

William Warlick

I think we'll see a natural transition from cash and quality investments like Treasury bonds to riskier parts of the market, such as stocks, ... Investors will start to recognize stocks are cheap compared to Treasury bonds and that high-yield bonds are even cheaper.

Barry Evans

If you have no history of a production percentage, we can consider the county yield or the county average. It's all based on your average.

Sheena Johnson

And while you are waiting, you get a 3 percent yield and one of the strongest balance sheets in corporate America.

Richard Cripps

Buying the dollar versus yen is a pretty attractive yield play. It's the same mantra from last year: interest-rate differentials rule.

Tim O'sullivan

We really have given up a lot in price and gained a lot in yield.

Ann Hurley

A lemon squeezed too hard will only yield a bitter juice. There has to be a line drawn somewhere. It is when the body starts wearing off when people will start thinking about these things.

Javagal Srinath

The whole name of the game in banking right now is trying to generate high-interest-yielding assets. That's what the credit card business is. Everyone has these deposits right now. They have to put them to work.

David Hendler

High-yield issuance is down. There was not as much refinancing to do this year, but the M&A and private equity-driven issuance dominated the calendar.

John Purcell

Twenty-year bonds have risen too far given the auction tomorrow. Traders are likely to try and back up the yield to closer to 2 percent for the auction.

Akihiko Inoue

[TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto stocks were seen opening slightly higher on Wednesday with rising bank issues offsetting weakness in energy and gold-mining shares.] There could be a continued lifting in bank stocks and that's a flight to quality, ... I think you will continue to see people going to the higher-quality, dividend-paying stocks, where they can get the yield that satisfies them.

Terry Milne

Bank One is selling at a discount to the market and provides a modest current yield. And frankly, it's got the capacity to grow, with earnings growth of 13 percent a year over the next number of years. So it's one that we think, certainly for value-conscious investors, makes a lot of sense.

John Shaughnessy

We're able to sense how a crop grows within a field, much like a yield monitor will make a map based on yield. We can create different variable application maps to control different rates of fertilizers and chemicals that are put on the field automatically through a GPS receiver.

Lanny Faleide

We're already seeing some companies yielding to pressure. But everybody is waiting for the big lady to sing, which is Exxon.

Fadel Gheit

Our goal is to really push the high yield areas and save inputs on the low yield areas.

Steve Wik

Due to the prolonged flatness to slight inversion in the yield curve, the company is focused on stabilizing our net interest margin, controlling expense growth and maximizing generation of capital. We are disappointed that operating/cash earnings per share were lower than a year ago, but are hopeful this trend will change by the second half of 2006.

Jay Sidhu

An increase in the Fed's overnight rate to 4.75 percent may cool the housing market and slow growth. Treasuries' yield curve may flatten.

Kazuaki Oh'e

Fragmented boards can't have the expertise needed to review the Army Corps of Engineers plans for the levee system nor the clout to hold them accountable. Multiple boards cannot be part of a cohesive solution for the region. It is also reasonable to expect that a single board is going to be more efficient and cost effective yielding greater results everywhere for everyone.

Jay Lapeyre

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Quintilian

There could be a continued lifting in bank stocks and that's a flight to quality. I think you will continue to see people going to the higher-quality, dividend-paying stocks, where they can get the yield that satisfies them.

Terry Milne

Cars are moving pretty quickly. There's a lot of cars and they don't yield to pedestrians.

Blan Holman

We think [Sirius'] consistency delivering on its guidance and its focus on cost and free cash-flow yield will help evolve the shareholder base in 2006.

Benjamin Swinburne

December's holiday travel was strong, and we continued our trend of double-digit year-over-year improvement in both revenue per available seat mile (RASM) and yield for the east and west networks. We are also especially proud of the US Airways team for delivering outstanding customer service to over 2.4 million customers during the recent holiday travel season.

Scott Kirby

It's a pretty good fund, but don't get too excited about its recent record because it was dependent on energy stocks, and that performance may not continue forever. You don't necessarily need a utilities fund in your portfolio, but people buy them for yield and to add diversification if they already have growth funds.

David Kathman

At the same time, the yield curve is flat and actually has the potential to invert. An inverted yield curve has often been a precursor to a recession occurring within a year.

Harvey Rosenblum

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Louis D. Brandeis

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

While our revenue performance in the quarter was negatively impacted by our own strategic decision to focus on more profitable revenue streams going forward, this is a strategy that should yield healthier shareholder returns both now and in the future.

Ted Waitt

In general, in any sort of tax-deferred account, you have a little more leeway to look at fund types that might be undesirable for your taxable account. If you're going to own a high-turnover, aggressive growth fund, for example, putting it in a tax-sheltered wrapper is a good idea. By the same token, a high-yield bond fund might be a good thing to put in a tax-deferred account.

Christine Benz

The data is certainly improving. We could get to much higher yield levels than we are currently at.

Andy Chaytor

No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many counties. However, deviations for some counties in 2005 are large and in the 'second tier' of yield loses. While genetic improvements may have reduced yield losses, large negative yield deviations are still possible.

Gary Schnitkey

I think a lot of the banks have done some restructuring in order to prepare for the flat yield curve and the fact it will be around for a while.

Meghan Crowe

He worked on it Monday - it probably would have been rated 'yielding' and he worked well. But historically, Theatricals don't like soft ground.

Bill Mott

The rise in global rates caught the market when it was very complacent about the region, causing a sell-off in the zloty. If we see a further rate cut in Poland, the yield differential over the euro-zone will have shrunk, and only investors with a very strong currency call will stay in the market.

Koon Chow

Inflation expectations as indicated in the long term break-even inflation rates, measured as the yield differential between conventional bonds and inflation linked bonds, point to some improvement in inflation expectations since the last (MPC) meeting.

Tito Mboweni

The market seems to anticipate a May increase plus another one, but probably not two after May, which will likely make the 5 percent benchmark yield reasonable.

Akifumi Uchida

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Pindar

For those not very loaned up, a flattening yield curve could start crunching their margins.

Alan Rowe

When Roundup Ready benefits are compared with conventional weed control practices we see increased yield and increased quality.

Mark Mccaslin

The walls that impeded communications have to come down and we have to focus R&D on products that are most likely to yield rewards.

Howard Stringer

Based on past experiences, we cannot be assured immediately, as their frequent declarations of suspending terrorist activities have failed to yield a lasting solution.

Tanka Dhakal

It is something we thought about starting this year but wanted to wait and see what the data showed. I think it is definitely something we will try next year to increase our yield.

William Bradley

Market conditions have deteriorated more than we anticipated, as reflected by numerous news accounts of earnings warnings and layoffs, particularly in the auto and high-tech sectors, ... Volume growth, yield growth and weights for February dropped noticeably for all of our operating units.

Alan Graf

There's not a lot of investment opportunities out there, so yield is still the default play for the market. But when the New Zealand dollar turns, it will turn aggressively, and if we don't get yield demand it will fall by a country mile.

Cameron Bagrie

Measured could go away, ... Greenspan wants the yield on the 10-year Treasury to go up because usually, long rates are not this low until late in a tightening cycle. The bond market may be underestimating how much more tightening needs to be done.

Bill Davison

While the margin remains under pressure, we're pleased that it has held through this quarter. This reflects our efforts to shift the asset mix, emphasizing internally generated assets while shedding lower yielding assets and higher cost funds.

Merrill W. Sherman

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Katharine Whitehorn

Who cared about a 2 percent yield when you were making 30 percent on your money.

Chuck Carlson

The whole game now is just playing the yield curve.

David Hendler

It's clearly a tough environment for CFOs to manage, given where the yield curve is, as they are directly responsible for managing balance sheets.

Thane Bublitz

Jeff will bring additional expertise to our clients by providing high yield analysis based on several years of experience covering consumer products and retail. We are excited to have Jeff as part of our Investment Research team, where our goal is to provide differentiated and proprietary research for our clients.

Joel Denney

His intentions were not very clear but there is a sense of disappointment in the market, considering some people were thinking the recent spikes in the short to intermediate sector of the yield curve were overdone.

Akihiko Inoue

We have a good opportunity for the dollar to do better than it seems for some time. The pickup in yield is quite wide.

Paul Chertkow

An examination of his computer did yield evidence to indicate that he had accessed explicit child pornography on that machine.

Mike Watson

You would think that investors would go after safer, dividend-yielding companies, but it's not the case. Everyone's looking for the next home run.

John Buckingham

The yield curve has narrowed. Some money market funds are now yielding more than 4%. At that rate, they're competitive with both short- and long-term bond funds.

Gary Schlossberg

Any random set of numbers, when played with as Hoagland did, will yield many coincidental mathematical relationships, ... His mathematical analysis is so full of holes, flaws, and misdirection that it is completely worthless.

Philip Plait

The appeal of these investments is a high and steady yield, rather than their growth opportunities. There's a high element of demand for these assets at the moment.

Jason Teh

A good yield combined with a weakening US dollar should prove irresistible to global investors.

Clifford Bennett

The yield-curve flattening has certainly been challenging for banks. The winners and losers will be decided on how well they can generate revenues faster than expenses are growing.

Mark Batty

The current yield level is attractive enough and we can expect some buying. Additional evidence to show the economy is expanding, or consumer prices are rising, is necessary for bond yields to reach a higher range.

Xinyi Lu

Today, as bond buyers search in this period of very low interest rates and tight credit spreads for every additional basis point of yield they can find, market participants seem to be ignoring the lessons that were learned in prior bust periods, ... By ignoring those hard learned and expensive lessons, such investors are sowing the seeds of future defaults.

Paul Ross

The inverted yield curve, which sent the stock market reeling yesterday, made gold one of the few safe havens.

George Gero

This is very much in the same spirit as a tax amnesty program and, hopefully, will yield millions of new revenue dollars for the city.

Richard Barnes

We're seeing continued interest from Japanese investors to sell the yen and go for yield. And the market has already jumped on the BOJ issue so by the time the fact comes out it could be a non-event.

Noriyuki Kato