The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually buy and sell from market-makers, brokerage firms that flip shares between buyers and sellers and keep the spread for themselves.
Alex Berenson
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Investors are also buying shares in firms with attractive dividend yields ... such as steel makers a... HIROAKI KURAMOCHI Investors have been conditioned to buy on the down days, ... Money continues to flow into the market... DOUG MYERS Look for retail investors and brokerage dealers to pinpoint individual shares that are liquid and ca... MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO Because of the uncertainties over exchange rates, investors were hesitant to chase export-oriented s... HIDEO MIZUTANI Investors are having to deal with the reality of lower corporate profits. And the stock market is st... MICHAEL STRAUSS Investors are concerned that shares have gotten too expensive and there's no reason to buy into the ... KOJI UCHIDA The investors that wanted to get in, buy something and flip it quick, they don't exist anymore. DAVE MINTON And, ... the taxes are generally only due on dividends - and most investors buy the stock for growth... STEVE CHANDLER The US market has gone up for the past (few) consecutive trading days and should provide further mom... CONITA HUNG There's uncertainty in the market and investors are looking to large-cap shares for relative safety. MASATOSHI SATO Brokerage firms will benefit from the regulatory changes as they sell more diversified products. CHOI CHANG HOON Capital is readily available, and private equity investors are looking for investment opportunities.... STAN ROSS China's move to let investors buy securities abroad was a force for the market, and most investors b... CASTOR PANG Smaller companies have lower costs and less complexity, and traditional identity-management systems ... SOMESH SINGH The Nasdaq will probably rebound tonight because of Yahoo and investors started factoring that in at... KATSUHIKO KODAMA When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then they can b... JEFFREY SACHS The market is responding very directly to interest rates as kind of a one-dimensional thing -- fearf... GAIL DUDACK Economic conditions and increased competition on our routes have resulted in excess capacity which i... BOB AYLING Nasdaq-Europe is an important step in creating an electronic global stock market for the benefit of ... FRANK ZARB Microsoft doesn't sell products directly to consumers. Consumers go through equipment makers and re-... JIM CULLINAN Investors have an interest in knowing actual brokerage and other management costs, and, and in being... CHRISTOPHER COX The NAPM attracted buyers, but there are still a lot of investors sitting on the sidelines. Benign i... BOB BASEL As one of the premier brokerage for individual futures investors for 40 years, Lind-Waldock has been... MARK SACHS Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as w... BARRY RITHOLTZ I believe it will be a healthy, normal market with more give-and-take between sellers and buyers. HOLLY WORTHINGTON After recent Nasdaq falls, Taiwan investors now are worried about the third-quarter profit performan... ALBERT LIN Some markets are falling because investors are selling shares to buy into initial public offerings. HAISSAM ARABI The Japanese market is closed today, so there are few reasons to prompt investors to either sell or ... MARCO MAK Investors are favoring lower-cost funds and are putting more assets into them. DON PHILLIPS Technology shares here got a lift from strong gains in the Nasdaq index as many investors here regar... HITOSHI YAMAMOTO [One analyst said the new features should result in lower maintenance costs for businesses.] The cos... VERNON TURNER Tweeter has been losing market share to the big guys. It served a higher-end customer, and historica... WILLIAM ARMSTRONG Larger hubs of buyers and sellers combined together make it easier for them to find one another. BILL CLINE Telecoms are rising because they are the most liquid; the stocks foreigners will buy when they come ... ANTONIO MACHADO Telecoms are rising because they are the most liquid; the stocks foreigners will buy when they come ... ANTONIO MACHADO For now the rate hike will have mostly a psychological impact on the market. Investors will probably... WANG ZHENG The market was surprised by the Central Bank's decision yesterday to lower rates. Brazil's seen posi... BRUNO SERAPHIM The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, ... DAVID KORTEN The simplest way to reduce the cost of prescription drugs would've been to require Medicare to negot... ROGER HICKEY We see continued strength in capital flows to private equity firms from institutional investors seek... WALTER KORTSCHAK We believe that there are attractive investment opportunities in Europe -- for mutual fund investors... AMY DOMINI Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover inv... MARK ZANDI Investors are also getting a bit tired of these tight spreads and they are not sure if they should i... DILIP PARAMESWARAN There is no compelling reason for a split since large institutional investors have the capital to bu... DAVID GARRITY Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market m... ALEX BERENSON The market had moved very quickly in a short period of time, so investors are just taking profits no... DIPEN SANGHAVI Everybody knows they (investors) want to buy high yielding currencies and the yen still seems like t... LARA RHAME I've been in the business for many years, and we were looking at ways to efficiently bring buyers in... PETER ELLIS We expect ABX to build liquidity and transparency in the synthetic asset-backed market, attracting g... KEVIN GOULD Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds. JOYCE CHANG Property stocks rose because the market is speculating that other Hong Kong banks will also lower ra... BEN KWONG They certainly distinguished themselves ... but they are not immune to the pressures faced by other ... MARK OLINE I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We are returning to more balanced markets between home buyers and sellers, one that places buyers on... DAVID LEREAH The U.S. economy looks stable. Easing concern over interest rates prompted investors to buy back the... ATSUSHI OSA Some sellers think about selling, but after they realize how much they owe and how much they can sel... BRIAN MITCHELL Investors and institutions buy our shares because they want to buy real estate in Singapore. Our pri... KWEK LENG BENG Investors are moving from telescopic-themed-excessive-multiple creatures to microscopic-near-term-ea... PIP COBURN She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER The Nasdaq is going to take a nasty turn. My guess is that the market could open 3 percent lower. BILL O'NEILL The Nasdaq ended mostly unchanged last Friday, and some investors bet it was a good chance to hunt f... HIDENORI KARAKI Technology shares have risen significantly recently. But some investors are wondering whether electr... HARVEY CHANG I keep looking for the unemployment numbers to rise, and they don't; they just keep getting lower. CLYDE PRESTOWITZ Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to... KUNIHIRO HATAE Some investors are relieved that Suzuki shares won't be flooding the market. The agreement also clea... KOICHI OGAWA The Nasdaq is kind of bouncing between support levels. Some buyers have surfaced, with people pickin... HEDI REYNOLDS Lower figures for the recently released producer-price index and consumer- price index, and lower bu... AMY CREWS CUTTS To me, short-sellers are no good for long-term investors. They can move prices of a stock in a way t... BOB MILLEN Local markets react to themselves, not to one 100 miles away. Service stations look at their competi... DAVE FOGARTY Today's investment environment presents excellent opportunities for investors with long-term buy-and... MARK SUTTON It's a positive move for the stock in the long term because it means more institutional investors ca... DICK WEI Investors will be reluctant to try (to push shares) higher as they wait for more information on the ... MASAYOSHI YANO The market is following Wall Street and Nasdaq lower at the moment but I think we're going to see ba... ALEX WONG The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs... JOHN ANTON The big picture for investors is what will it do for production. What will it mean for supply and de... IAN SYNNOTT Lower feed costs. That will be good news for your ranchers and dairy farmers. DON ROOSE The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. W. EDWARDS DEMING Investors are avoiding large-cap technology shares before Friday's SQ and GDP. Instead, they are pic... HIROSHI SATO Investors are starting to get the feeling that the Nasdaq has bottomed. JOHN FORELLI The only answer I know to the question, "What to do?" is to follow the middle path. Sell fully value... AL FRANK Small investors who entered the market on the back of last year's spectacular gains lack any backgro... NASHWA SALEH The appetite for emerging markets remains strong, and we are continuing to see appetite and demand f... MPHO MOJALEFA Our mid-market business has been one of the key drivers for Oracle's overall business growth in Chin... ROGER LI Bonds will probably rise. Concern that the U.S. and Japanese economies will slow is spreading among ... JUN ISHII Gains of stocks give investors another reason to sell bonds. MASAHIRO KAMI Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. ROBERT REICH Taiwanese firms are their [the Japanese] first pick because of their strong cost-saving capabilities... ANNABELLE HSU Growth was lower than expectations because of inventories -- which will need to be rebuilt -- while ... DREW MATUS (Open-source firms) are engaging in substantial, active, prosperous business ? making money for thei... EBEN MOGLEN (Open-source firms) are engaging in substantial, active, prosperous business ? making money for thei... EBEN MOGLEN Investors can't really take risks and buy bonds because yields are on a gradual rising trend. The ce... AKITO FUKUNAGA At the lowest end of the range, in India, the overall average expectation is dragged down by a consi... JAY BENNETT Investors tend not to have a big problem with split government because for many investors, the gover... JOSEPH MCALINDEN If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well. The market expe... ANTJE PRAEFCKE There's a disconnect between buyers and sellers. Sellers tend to be about at least six months behind... JONATHAN MILLER
More Alex Berenson
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture... ALEX BERENSON Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fa... ALEX BERENSON Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcas... ALEX BERENSON On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,... ALEX BERENSON Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, wor... ALEX BERENSON John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as cha... ALEX BERENSON Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. ALEX BERENSON Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets ... ALEX BERENSON Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck... ALEX BERENSON The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and t... ALEX BERENSON If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. ALEX BERENSON Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog compu... ALEX BERENSON Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software i... ALEX BERENSON For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idea... ALEX BERENSON Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies d... ALEX BERENSON Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the techn... ALEX BERENSON In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq'... ALEX BERENSON As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I... ALEX BERENSON Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of t... ALEX BERENSON Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time.... ALEX BERENSON The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of ... ALEX BERENSON For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutua... ALEX BERENSON Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies... ALEX BERENSON Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business an... ALEX BERENSON Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just t... ALEX BERENSON The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known beca... ALEX BERENSON Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them... ALEX BERENSON Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycat... ALEX BERENSON Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day. ALEX BERENSON For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North Ameri... ALEX BERENSON To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, th... ALEX BERENSON Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional s... ALEX BERENSON Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about inte... ALEX BERENSON Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate... ALEX BERENSON Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file emp... ALEX BERENSON Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despit... ALEX BERENSON Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating M... ALEX BERENSON Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and deman... ALEX BERENSON Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand tax... ALEX BERENSON Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy ha... ALEX BERENSON Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of ... ALEX BERENSON Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors so... ALEX BERENSON It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go... ALEX BERENSON As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of sh... ALEX BERENSON Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are ... ALEX BERENSON Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based o... ALEX BERENSON As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume. ALEX BERENSON Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destr... ALEX BERENSON Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market m... ALEX BERENSON Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to rese... ALEX BERENSON In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That ... ALEX BERENSON Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members... ALEX BERENSON At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to ha... ALEX BERENSON Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although t... ALEX BERENSON Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their execut... ALEX BERENSON For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7... ALEX BERENSON Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are t... ALEX BERENSON Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real ... ALEX BERENSON Evelyn belted out the song, her voice sliding across the notes like a car on an icy road. ALEX BERENSON In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new inve... ALEX BERENSON Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer b... ALEX BERENSON Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day. ALEX BERENSON Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors. ALEX BERENSON Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the compan... ALEX BERENSON Plumbing is usually boring. ALEX BERENSON The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the ob... ALEX BERENSON Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising ... ALEX BERENSON Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients f... ALEX BERENSON Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particul... ALEX BERENSON Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time. ALEX BERENSON From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Qu... ALEX BERENSON Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too gro... ALEX BERENSON With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Brid... ALEX BERENSON Even technology companies get good news sometimes. ALEX BERENSON A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, espe... ALEX BERENSON For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the... ALEX BERENSON The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a pa... ALEX BERENSON America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial off... ALEX BERENSON To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could o... ALEX BERENSON Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it ... ALEX BERENSON The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is... ALEX BERENSON As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and fac... ALEX BERENSON African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Co... ALEX BERENSON Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises. ALEX BERENSON Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage natio... ALEX BERENSON Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured ... ALEX BERENSON Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market ... ALEX BERENSON Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed. BERNHARD BERENSON Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu... BERNARD BERENSON Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. BERNARD BERENSON I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wast... BERNARD BERENSON Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamai... BERNARD BERENSON Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. BERNARD BERENSON Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope BERNARD BERENSON Miracles happen to those who believe in them. BERNARD BERENSON A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract pe... MARISA BERENSON I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wast... BERNARD BERENSON The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and hea... BERNARD BERENSON I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters. BERNARD BERENSON I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minu... BERNARD BERENSON The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others BERNARD BERENSON All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of w... BERNARD BERENSON Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lama... BERNARD BERENSON I would predict he will keep his promise and appoint a justice in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, a s... BRADFORD BERENSON Ultimately, ... I think the president is unusually good at ignoring all kinds of outside pressure wi... BRADFORD BERENSON This choice is exactly what it appears to be -- it's the ultimate vote of confidence by the presiden... BRADFORD BERENSON That's the right move for a whole variety of reasons and, if I were on the inside, that is what I wo... BRADFORD BERENSON The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And ... BRADFORD BERENSON Judge Gonzales would be the obvious choice for this next pick, but for the opposition of conservativ... BRADFORD BERENSON The pressure to find a woman or a minority if anything will be even greater this time around, I have... BRADFORD BERENSON My own hunch, given the president's own commitment to diversity on the federal bench, is that he is ... BRADFORD BERENSON The conservative base in the Republican party is putting on as much pressure as is possible for some... BRADFORD BERENSON All else being equal, the president would go for diversity. Women and minorities will be among the c... BRADFORD BERENSON The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in dra... BRAD BERENSON They're probably going to turn back to the Roberts model. BRAD BERENSON My own view is that we probably will not get any of the individuals who are the very top of the Demo... BRAD BERENSON He's an excellent reflection of his boss ? smart, action-oriented, tough, loyal, BRAD BERENSON It's awfully hard to read the tea leaves this time. But the harder I've thought about this, the more... BRAD BERENSON If the Roberts' confirmation is a foregone conclusion, why look like a knee-jerk obstructionist? ...... BRAD BERENSON Gonzales is really the only candidate who satisfies each and every one of the president's substantiv... BRAD BERENSON Nobody considers that a very healthy situation. You have a number of very high-profile, important ca... BRAD BERENSON If the Roberts confirmation is a foregone conclusion, why look like a knee-jerk obstructionist? ... ... BRAD BERENSON If Bush is willing to go to the mat for somebody, the odds are good that, at the end of the day, no ... BRAD BERENSON The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state. BERNARD BERENSON If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their waste... BERNARD BERENSON Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. BERNARD BERENSON All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together crea... BERNARD BERENSON Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. BERNARD BERENSON When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the inc... BERNARD BERENSON I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I fel... MARISA BERENSON I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty. MARISA BERENSON I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all ... MARISA BERENSON A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no sel... BERNARD BERENSON A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no sel... BERNARD BERENSON Given the Cheney precedent and the president's well-known loyalty to his aides, it's certainly possi... BRAD BERENSON She's a very able lawyer who is the person currently charged with carrying forward the president's s... BRAD BERENSON The case they [the justices] thought they had may not be the case they have now. BRAD BERENSON Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed BERNARD BERENSON He is genuinely committed to diversity on the federal bench. It was explicit. He wanted his staff to... BRAD BERENSON Nobody who gets hit by a bus has warm feelings about the bus. People who have tangled with David ove... BRADFORD BERENSON He believes what he believes and he does what he does because he is genuinely and sincerely committe... BRADFORD BERENSON Because of the pool problem, we did carefully examine law firms and professors as well in looking fo... BRADFORD BERENSON David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out propor... BRADFORD BERENSON Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind bu... BERNARD BERENSON You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricatur... BERNARD BERENSON The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others... BERNARD BERENSON From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life... BERNARD BERENSON Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. BERNARD BERENSON I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hou... BERNARD BERENSON Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. BERNARD BERENSON I really like the way our team dug down and played hard and gave ourselves a chance. RED BERENSON This choice is exactly what it appears to be -- it's the ultimate vote of confidence by the presiden... BRADFORD A. BERENSON The pressure to find a woman or a minority if anything will be even greater this time around, I have... BRADFORD A. BERENSON That's the right move for a whole variety of reasons and, if I were on the inside, that is what I wo... BRADFORD A. BERENSON The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And ... BRADFORD A. BERENSON In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. ALEX GREY Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome. ALEX MORGAN I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in ... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I like playing the villain. ALEX O'LOUGHLIN It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird. ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case ... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I e... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romantic... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying. ALEX O'LOUGHLIN My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog. ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy tha... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the ... ALEX LOWE The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, e... ALEX KAPRANOS If it's not messy and it doesn't drip over the sides, it's not a holiday hot chocolate -... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI I've been humbled by the reception I've received everywhere. ALEX RODRIGUEZ I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever. ALEX GUARNASCHELLI In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoh... ALEX FERGUSON If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a... ALEX STEFFEN What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and... ALEX STEFFEN I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you ... ALEX EBERT I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the... ALEX CAMPBELL The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose. ALEX TURNER I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God ha... ALEX RODRIGUEZ Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patroniz... ALEX KINGSTON The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to de... ALEX FERGUSON It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should ... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having... ALEX KAPRANOS I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my b... ALEX PETTYFER I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That's not because I feel old an... ALEX MORGAN I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began... ALEX SPANOS The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ALEX LEVIN The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms o... ALEX STEFFEN Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues ... ALEX NOBLE Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after... ALEX MORRITT I had never thought about playing volleyball until my freshman year, ... But Small stopped me in the... ALEX NOBLE It started clicking then, ALEX NOBLE Intimidation? Oh, gosh, I cried every day, ... I almost walked out the first day. One girl said I sh... ALEX NOBLE Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and g... ALEX NOBLE If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I ... ALEX NOBLE If I'd stayed up there I'd be out of a job now, ALEX SANDERSON One step from the scrapheap, really. ALEX SANDERSON