Famous Quotes & Sayings

In some sense the risk the central banks run is they are coming in a little too late.

Instead of having the ad stand alone, they are surrounding it with other platforms where people are migrating. You want to get the biggest bang for your buck by putting the commercial in other venues.

Zack Rocha

Inside Out was the first band I ever fronted. I channeled all my pain through that band. It was about completely detaching ourselves from society to see ourselves as...as spirits, and not bowing down to a system that sees you as just another pebble on a beach. But what Inside Out went through were a ton of lineup changes.

In our industry, more borrowing means we are making more money and growing, ... Our business is simple: We borrow money from banks at approximately 7 percent and loan that money out to our customers at a much higher rate. So our bank debt only goes up when consumer demand for our loans goes up.

In our opinion, the next six months represent a critical time for Kmart, and we would not be surprised if the company were to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy if trends do not improve.

Gayle King

I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.

In older buildings the seal between the sill and the foundation is never as good as it should be. I think banking the foundation helps keep the floor warmer, it helps keep you comfortable in the winter, especially in old buildings.

Bob Coleman

Innovative Bank can make or break a district director's goals,

In our view, there is still is every reason for the Bank of Canada to continue to nudge its rate higher, and we are not changing our call for a four per cent (overnight) rate by April.

I probably had a bottle of water on every hole and then ate a couple of bananas and energy bars.

Scott Weiland

I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.

Courtney Barnett

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

Investors may take a wait-and-see stance until the Bank of Japan comes out with its policy statement.

Investors have become completely convinced that we need to see the housing canary buckle under a little bit. If the housing market softens, then investors will view that as the canary in the cave that indicates that central bankers will not have to be as aggressive.

Investors are starting to think the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expected. That has pushed shares of real-estate companies lower as they usually borrow heavily to expand their property holdings.

Investors are prioritizing investment into the financial sector now. Fundamentals look good and I expect banks to post further profit gains.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

Investors are going after Merchants Bank stock as the revised plan is better than expected.

Investors already learned about the recovery in Japan's banking industry and the Mizuho sale gives them another investment opportunity.

Investment bank was pretty good all in. Transaction services had strong revenue, but earnings fell on higher expenses and credit costs. Smith Barney and private banking were okay, but not as good as Merrill.

Investment banking really did knock the cover off the ball. We're moving from a pretty weak performance into a better-performing business.

Investment banking is relatively easy to forecast, but the trading side is a tough one.

Investment bankers were being a bit too optimistic in terms of deal flow. The market has stabilized but I don't think there is a lot of enthusiasm yet. We are not yet in a strong, up market. Putting in 30 deals, when a couple of weeks ago there was hardly any, may have been too much to bear.

Investing in a startup community bank can be a very good investment if you are patient, because the pay off is years away.

James Stewart

Investors will be looking for clues for interest rate cuts. A U.K. rate cut is expected in February, the European Central Bank is most likely to cut rates sometime at the end of the first quarter, start of the second quarter.

Investors should remain on the sidelines and mind our speculative risk rating. Share prices could remain volatile amid bankruptcy speculation until management is more forthcoming with refinancing and restructuring progress.

In the past we might have felt at different points that the concerns about bankruptcy risk were way overplayed.

In the past, we might have felt at different points that the concerns about bankruptcy risk were way overplayed.

In the long run, a ban is inevitable. Where there's been a ban elsewhere in the world, revenues dip then bounce back. In our non-smoking pubs we're getting more women, more families and selling more wine and food.

David Johansen

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

In the past, such a move effectively wiped out the national banking sector in Eastern Europe.

Steve Cook

In the real estate industry, we are concerned about the precedent it sets to let banks be property managers and brokers.

Kofi Annan

In the midst of the road map process, when each party should be making good-faith confidence-building gestures, the barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot, in this regard, be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act,