Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcy Kaptur

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

Marc Faber

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

John Rothfield

Major central banks in the world have talked about hiking rates, so if the Bank of Canada signals they are coming to the end of rate increases, it may push investors to sell the Canadian dollar further.

Tony Russell

Macquarie has always been treated as a growth bank and their guidance that came out, even though it was strong, was probably disappointing to what the market was chasing.

Vinod Thomas

Liberalizing trade by itself is not enough to generate growth and to fight poverty. While the World Bank has done the right thing in promoting more open trade worldwide it has not done everything right to help generate the payoffs.

Donna Jaegers

(Level 3) still has a few more quarters before building sales momentum, but it's not going to go bankrupt - not right away at least. I think they're OK for a few years.

Robert Subbaraman

Low inflation buys the Bank of Korea some time before the next rate hike.

Spencer White

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

Chris Perry

Many of the bank stocks that have been mentioned as takeover targets are underperformers that don't meet earnings expectations. We would not be chasing them.

Michael Foster

Maintenance is for the unexpected repair, while capital reserve is for future projects. There is a limit done by formula. The problem for districts is having the money to put in those reserves.

John Healy

Machine tool orders for November continued to indicate a steady demand for new capital equipment as we pushed through the last quarter of 2005.

Abdulnabi Macki

Low price of natural gas inputs, provision of world class port services, tax exemption for a renewable period of five years and encouragement of foreign capital in natural gas-based industrial projects led to the implementation of many projects with a total cost of $13 billion.

Phyllis Schlafly

Many people have been fed up with judges for many years and for many different reasons, such as prayer in school, abortion, and capital punishment.

Zhang Qi

Shares rose because the notice promises measures to develop a more stable capital market and resolve some of the problems faced by struggling firms.

Dorsey Farr

One popular explanation is that there is a glut of capital in the world in search of a home, and a lot of it finds its way into relatively risk-free assets, such as Treasury bonds.

Richard J. Roberts

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

Larry Flowers

No one knows what the cost of gas or coal is going to be in the future. But once past the capital costs, we can figure what wind-produced electricity will be cost.

Arnie Berman

One week does not a capital markets make.

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Tim Walz

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

Brian Young

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

Stanley Fischer

The recovery is not firmly in place. There is no reason to withdraw stimulus right now. The need is to make sure that the recovery in Japan is self-sustained -- and that means it's hard to see any good reason for monetary policy to tighten.

Janelle Hironimus

We firmly support the rule of law and constitutional government. Violence should be avoided.

Simon Schama

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bertrand Delanoe

More than ever, housing must be a national priority,

James Sullivan

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging,

Dean Baker

I wouldn't necessarily predict this would be a trigger, but I wouldn't rule it out either. It wouldn't surprise me if you see money leaving the secondary mortgage market, leading housing prices to fall.

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Nthatisi Modingoane

The project is aimed at alleviating the housing problems of the surrounding suburbs as well as the Kathrada Park informal settlement, but in a systematic and orderly manner.

Ben Gunn

The outlook in the UK is promising, particularly if there is an uplift in the housing market.

Larry Wachtel

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we get numbers on industrial production and housing and big reports from Intel, Coke, Johnson & Johnson -- maybe that can turn us around.

James McIntyre

Travel trailers were always meant to be interim housing until we can get more permanent solutions.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Alan Ackerman

Traders and investors feel more comfortable with the value sector of the market, ... What we're seeing is a two-tiered market.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Robert Scoble

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Michael Slater

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Curtis Haggins

Meacham could have won it with 1.7 seconds left on the clock. That would have been something.

Marc Pado

Net-net, there's probably plenty of oil in the market. OPEC left production quotas, so that's a plus for the market this morning.

Brad Faxon

Money is an important part. There's a little consolidation, and when you've got consolidation, somebody is going to get left out.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Richard Seymour

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

John Franco

When I left is when they started playing well,

Jon Anderson

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Charles Peguy

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Archibald Hill

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Craig Ray

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Jake Bugg

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

David Givens

I was surprised to win, I thought for sure someone else would have a longer commute.

Michael Vick

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

Seth Harp

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Elizabeth Warren

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Michael Callahan

We always reserve the right to get better.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Samuel Olson

They are treading water to see what's going to happen.