Denise Valentine Quotations

With some of these tools, by the time I figured out what color blob I was looking at, it was just easier to look at a table -- I could get the information I needed faster that way. It gives you a lot of information, but it's like topography as opposed to a street map. In some cases the technology didn't help and didn't have the right type of navigation.

J.C. Flowers is very broadly involved with financial service companies of various types and is an entity with some knowledge of the market.

JC Flowers has a reputation in this market for making these types of investments. It's someone known for restructurings and re-workings.

J.C. Flowers has a reputation in this market for making these types of investments. It's someone known for restructurings and re-workings.

It's phenomenal that this company has been able to get on the S&P 500 less than two years after it went public. And GE spun it off because it didn't feel it had a good enough handle on its earnings.

The market environment is moving very quickly and any day you are not trading, you are losing money. They need to be moving very quickly on this.

If they find more, it could be there demise.

The $1 trillion mark has always been something to achieve, and others have come close. But it must be pretty heady to be the first $1 trillion asset manager. Not even the behemoths like Vanguard can say that.