Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you don't evaluate your programs, you can't make smart decisions. You're just throwing money at an issue without any clue whether you're getting any bang for your buck.

Jeffrey Sachs

If the whole world went into recession, all the major central banks could cut interest rates and expand the money supply.

If we used conventional direct-attach storage systems, warehousing this much information would be too laborious and unproductive. Moreover, thanks to our SAN, we no longer back up data over the production network, which had in the past diminished bandwidth and slowed delivery of our business applications and resources.

If United were to slip into Chapter 7 bankruptcy and go out of business, the loss of this competitor would surely push up prices.

If you engage in a business transaction with the bank you should have the expectation that the information will only be used to serve you and not help banks make money from marketing.

If you have one checking account, two, whatever . . . remember to communicate with each other and bank responsibly. Compromise; that's what it's all about.

If you have any track record of running a bank or past success, you can do it.

If you are really going to enhance server performance with dual-core, then you also need to enhance the I/O bandwidth and memory at the same time. So when we went to release our eighth-generation servers, we put PCI-Express on all of the I/O slots and used DDR-2 memory as the new memory standard on the platforms.

Jean Chatzky

If you decide you need a secured card, use it to charge small items every month, then pay the balance off in full. If your credit score improves, and the bank doesn't offer to upgrade your card within 12 to 18 months, give them a call. If they refuse, try another lender.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

If you're a VIP executive from some company and staying in a five-star hotel in Bangkok and just going to meetings there or at your company office there, then your risk is very, very different from a student backpacker in college,

Courtney Taylor

If you're playing in a rock 'n' roll band and still you're doing whatever the man says, then I can tell you for the money the simple life, honey, is good, ... I've got to take my own advice, Jesus Christ...

If you're outsourcing part of your transaction work, you're responsible for making sure the provider adheres to the same security protocols you do. Consumers expect this security whether a bank employee does it or a third party does.

If you're not somewhat on the bandwagon when these stocks start to move, you are probably going to miss a rally.

If you're looking at the Chinese banking market, it's underdeveloped, offering good opportunities for growth.

J. C. Watts

If your credit report shows that you had six or more inquiries in the last 12 months that you triggered, you are eight times more likely to go bankrupt than somebody without any inquiries.

Jacob Sullum

If you ban smoking outside near a door or window, essentially you have no place to smoke except your own home - and maybe not even there. What's next? Smoking in a house with children will be considered child abuse. Smoking around pets will be cruel to animals.

If you bang one on, your passengers automatically think you are Navy.

Jonah Peretti

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

Muhammad Yunus

If you look at the gender composition of all the borrowers of all the banks in Bangladesh, not even 1% of the borrowers happen to be women.

If you imagine all the speculation we've had in past months with banks, then not one is off the possible-target field. All banks are put into that play.

In this area, SWIFT can also play a constructive role by introducing to Chinese banks the internationally-proven standard and global best practice.

Steve Ballmer

In this world, it should be very easy for me, the end user, to have a program that runs on my PC that tells my bank and my insurance company and my broker to all put their financial information about me in my virtual safety deposit box on the Web, and let me view my information under my control.

In the end, there's a high likelihood that in ten years, Capital One will look more like a thrift. I'd be surprised if I don't hear them make another bank acquisition by late 2006 in hot markets such as Florida or Texas.

Elliott Smith

In the event of the band dissolving, any members could be kept to that contract with or without their consent under the same terms.

In the early '70's, Keith and I were in a band called Canyon that played around the area, in places like the Jolly Ox. We met Randy, and one Monday night we got together, sang a few songs and I think we all knew we had something special brewing. By Wednesday, I had borrowed a bass guitar and we had a gig at this new club in Chattanooga, Yesterday's, and our first show was Thursday night. We knew 20 songs. When I think back on it, I'm still amazed.

Robert Richard

In the lap-band procedure, we put an elastic band around the neck of the stomach, just below the end of the esophagus. Solid food has to cross the band to get to the lower part of the stomach, so you don't need to eat as much to feel full.

Steve Erickson

In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation.

Gary Kemp

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Brian Ritchie

In the '80s, bands could just hop on the bus and travel for a few weeks; it was profitable. Now, everything's more expensive and you're not selling as many records because of Internet downloads.

Boy George

In the '60s everybody wanted to be the Beatles or the Stones, in the '70s there were bands everybody tried to emulate, like Led Zeppelin. And I think in the '80s you had lots of bands that had quite individual sounds, ... '80s Rewind.

In the 1990s, the state banks shoveled those deposits to inefficient state companies. The end result was a large number of nonperforming loans.

Edmund White

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.