Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.

Barry Ritholtz

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

Peter Green

With a slowing economy, banks loan less, ... It's disappointing that the market can't rally on rate cuts.

With any bank consolidation, there are efficiencies to be gained.

Yields won't gain much after the policy shift because the central bank won't keep tightening monetary policy.

The problem is that people are in serious debt in this country. Outstanding consumer debt is at all-time highs, and debt is like an illness. You don't solve an illness by making it harder to get into a hospital, which is what bankruptcy court is for debtors.

There are rumors that the central bank has injected capital into selective brokerages and let them buy stocks, as current valuations of most blue chips are obviously too low.

There are restrictions on city commercial banks on where they can operate... But through merging together, they can expand their business scales.

The one thing we can be confident of is that the books are cooked. We don't need to know who cooked the books to know that there is deep trouble for this company ... Bankruptcy reorganization looms and that the creditors are going to start looking for deep pockets to sue.

Chris Cornell

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

Chris Cornell

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

Christian Kane

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

Doug Flutie

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

Dave Lombardo

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

Robert Kiyosaki

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.

Ron Paul

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

Adam Jones

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

Adam McKay

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

Brad Goreski

When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season.

Barbara Lynn

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

Buzz Osborne

One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.

Barry Hannah

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

Burning Spear

Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.

Scott Anderson

We have several banking relationships with Okanogan businesses and residents of Okanogan. This makes it more convenient for them and those that are not members. This is an opportunity for us.

We have seen some of the best Class B bands in Indiana and have stayed close to them in point totals and performance quality.

This will be our sixth banquet. The first banquet we maybe had 65 people. Last year we had about 350. Our goal this year is 400 at least.

This was an experiment - expanding the band and trying to make the music communicate in a different sort of way. Maybe that part of it didn't happen. But his performance is so stunning when you watch what he is actually doing. When we cut the film together in the present form, in the correct order, better angles, and you really focus on Jimi, ... you see what he is doing. He's conducting the orchestra. He's playing lead and rhythm at the same time. He's smoking a cigarette. He's doing five things at once. It's incredible.

This was an effort in progress for months before the Bank of New York hit the news, ... This is a much broader issue than Russia.

There is really nothing for the community banks to fear here.

The panic of 1837, the contest of the United States Bank with President Jackson, its defeat, and its subsequent failure as a state bank, the consequent distress in local financial circles--all conspired to shift the monetary center of the country to New York.

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement.