Firms Quotes

You've seen several commercial banks make acquisitions of smaller regional brokerage firms this year, and all of them believe quite sincerely that they are going to grow revenues as a result and gain market share because they now offer one-stop comprehensive financing for their customers. At the same time I don't think Merrill Lynch is planning to lose any business. - David Berry

You'll probably see more private equity firms step up to this one than strategic buyers. - Peter Shaerf

You will not have people coming in to law firms thinking this is where they will necessarily end up. So what we are offering them is to make them a bit more commercial. - Julie Ward

You hear people say that Philadelphia doesn't have corporate or banking work. The fact is that I don't think most law students really understand what banking work really is, let alone whether a firm has a good practice. And I do think Philadelphia firms need to be more clear about the sophistication level of the work they do because there are a lot of misconceptions. - Chris Beals

You have all these rapidly emerging areas around China, your head swims trying to keep up with it... We've had investment by Chinese firms for a long time, but they used to be very, very low key about it. Now they come in with trumpets blaring and flags flying saying, 'Pay attention to us.' - Jack Kyser

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! - Jack LaLanne

Without a free trade agreement, no one, not national or foreign firms, will invest. We have many things that need to get done, and all those who oppose the free trade accord need to tell me how the heck we're going to do them. - Oscar Arias

With Vista Enterprise, firms can deploy a single global binary containing all the language packs they need. - David Weeks