There are some increased risks for independent institutional brokers [that] are, in a sense, left behind and not picked up by a larger organization with larger capital.

If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.

If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead.

We do not have too many options left and we certainly won't be taking any risks with the Rangers match so close.

You have to be involved internationally to compete these days. If not, you?re going to get left behind.

I pretended to be interested in their secret undertaking, but in fact I was very sorry about it. Although the two siblings had involved me by choosing me as their confidant, it was still an experience that I could enter only as witness: on that path Lila would do great things by herself, I was excluded. But above all, how, after our intense conversations about love and poetry, could she walk me to the door, as she was doing, far more absorbed in the atmosphere of excitement around a shoe?...What did I care about shoes. I still had, in my mind's eye, the most secret stages of that affair of violated trust, passion, poetry that became a book, and it was as if she and I had read a novel together, as if we had seen, there in the back of the shop and not in the parish hall on Sunday, a dramatic film.