Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Healy

I don't buy the bankruptcy talk. I think they have the resources to get through this. The stock has gotten so banged up, it could be an interesting speculation play. But I'm not going to try it myself.

I'd be awfully surprised if the Federal Reserve starts taking its cue from the central bank of Sweden or the Bank of England.

Thom Browne

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.

I am excited by Bank One's powerful franchise. Together, we will help our stock realize its value as we continue the momentum of our three strong lines of business and continue to rebuild our large credit card business.

Richard Byrd

I am delighted to join an institution that is so passionate about helping its clients, ... City National is clearly the place to be for superior private banking and wealth management services.

We've seen a dramatic increase, particularly at small banks. Larger banks are putting more effort on stopping these guys, so where do they go? Smaller institutions." ()

Robert Rubin

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

Charles Kettering

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Lamar S. Smith

We should not encourage lawsuits that blame others for our own choices and could bankrupt an entire industry.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

Stephen Stills

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

Jean Reno

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

Ed Markey

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

Ambrose Bierce

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Ambrose Bierce

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

The deal is very positive for the Mexican banking industry and the Mexican economy as a whole.

The credit data, together with the TD-MI monthly inflation gauge for October suggest the Reserve Bank will leave interest rates unchanged,

The credit card processors and banks are reaping enormous profits right now. That's right out of the dealer's profit.

Well, such as opening up some sectors of banking, branch banking for instance. It isn't a legislative matter, it's a matter for administrative action.

Bertolt Brecht

What is the crime of robbing a bank compared with the crime of founding one.

What we see is a banking industry that is fundamentally strong but continues to face some important challenges ahead.

Dalton Trumbo

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

I would say Macquarie Bank is an established global leader in this.

Tim Duncan

Just like the good, old days, when I used to make bank shots. Get his name for me. I need to consult with him.

Just like Red Bank is an all- year-round town, we think Pier Village will become an all-year- round destination.

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.