Famous Quotes & Sayings

Until five years ago, banks didn't have to worry much about operational risk. But that's a real risk that needs to be managed.

Maajid Nawaz

Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

Trevor Rabin

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

Yes, they were burdensome. What was unforeseen was the banning of MTBE in some states because it was getting into groundwater. After MTBE was off the table, it was burdensome for states like California and New York that didn't have a strong ethanol base to meet the requirements.

Depeche Mode

Yes, there's a reason why some detractors, and even fans, prefer to call the long-running British band ''Depressed Mode.

Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.

While there are some negatives in the record, when the score is toted up, we think he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived. His performance as chairman of the Fed has been impressive.

While there are people for whom this is an easy ride, for the vast majority, bankruptcy is not an easy ride.

You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ... and credit unions are known for being friendlier.

You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game.

We wear wrist bands with the letters TBA. It stands for trust, belief and accountability. Those are the three words that really describe our program. The guys are buying into that now.

Under the old law you could file bankruptcy every seven years and you'd have a full six years between filing (for Chapter 7). I have seen people who have filed three different times in their lifetimes.

Two of the sectors we think will drive the market higher are the financial stocks, in particular investment banks and brokers, and certain parts of technology. We're very bullish on the software companies.

Two important profit drivers, namely cost cuts and loan loss provisions, are faltering, and that is a trend to watch for the whole banking sector.

David Jones

Two good things have happened in Japan. We've overcome the uncertainty of who the leader's going to be; and secondly, they are listening to the markets, in terms of permanent tax cuts, in terms of banking reform.

There have been a few who have lusted after the job, but the vice chairmen are chosen for different purposes. The Fed is broken down so that the chairman runs policy and handles external relations, while the vice chairman runs the banking and internal part of the organization, and those aren't the skills you look for in a chairman.

The reason they've been in bankruptcy for three years is because they couldn't get creditors on board, I think they're going to come out when they say they are this time.

When someone as important as the Bank of Japan governor says something like that, it's enough to put investors on their toes, making them believe the fund injection could be decided at any time.

Chuck Palahniuk

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

First, it is a decent local New York franchise. With the recent sale of North Fork, the retail bank is the second largest regionally based and regionally focused bank behind Commerce Bank.

Financial stocks including banks are showing steady increases in their share price on the expectation they will continue to benefit from Japan's economic growth. There are still many people who want to buy bank stocks on dips.

Filings are up solely because of the bankruptcy reform act.

Filing for bankruptcy doesn't make this one go away, ... It may make it less urgent to deal with, but the fact of the matter is these guys are still on strike, and they're still hurting Northwest's business to some extent.

Joe Williams

Figuring out the dynamics of the band has been fascinating. You have people like Kevin who are at the level of being seasoned professionals, and then you have other members like me who are not at that level. It's been interesting to see how everybody reconciles all that.

Expectations of the Bank of Japan raising interest rates this year, as shown by climbing bonds yields, may slow down the outpouring of Japanese institutional investors' money. That will also bring about an unwinding of yen carry trades by foreign investors, supporting the yen.

Failure is not a crime. Bankruptcy is not a crime. If it were we would have to turn Oklahoma back into a penal colony because there would be so many people to lock up.

Dave Berry

Fads end eventually and value suddenly mattered again. The bank group outperformed the broad market in third, fourth and first quarter of this year.

Every time somebody uses it, it splits that bandwidth just a little bit.

But private banking has never been big here. People prefer to manage their own assets, usually in banks.

But our view was eventually banned from the report.

But once we banned chickens from the house, we chose wood.

Buddy Rich

But I've played with so many varied bands with varied musical tastes, that I feel qualified to have my own musical tastes at this point in my life.

Both the earnings and the claimant count data are stronger than expected. But I think any reaction to that data will be limited until we see the tone of the Bank of England's inflation report later this morning.