Underwrite Quotes

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. - Lillian Smith

This is an example of an experienced underwriter timing the deal in all but an absent market... They held back until they knew it was a good market to launch the IPO. - Ben Holmes

There is absolutely nothing in the contracts with AIG that precludes the Starr agencies from using whatever underwriters they wish. AIG is desperately trying to prevent C.V. Starr from competing with them. - Howard Opinsky

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives. - Henry Miller

The whole idea is that the Vegas event will be profitable enough to underwrite the Aspen event. - Joe Lang

That's still a lot of money to raise. That is our major cost that we're trying to underwrite. Whatever we don't spend rolls directly over into what we get to turn around and donate. - Jessica Elkus

Our tax dollars underwrite our universities. In-state tuition doesn't cover the cost of a college education. As a business owner, you're going to throw me in jail and fine me, financially, if I try to hire the person that I just helped put through school? That's crazy. - Rep. Jason Watkins

Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk. - Richard Shelby