Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Ainge

Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.

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.

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.

We continue to believe that a bankruptcy filing is a low probability outcome and that the company will successfully negotiate a new bank agreement.

When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

We can say authoritatively that federal bankruptcy law changes are doing no measurable good whatsoever. They've done nothing more than put new hurdles in the path of people who are already flat on their back due to a financial crisis over which they have no control.

We can only hope that the Goldman Sachs investment bankers who are advising the board are providing you with the same advice. Why should a company's shareholders have to run a proxy contest to convince its board to do the right thing?

We drove to several banks and someone said they found her behind New River Shopping Center,

Well, I started out in the Federal Reserve as a young economist and spent about five years in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

George Bernard Shaw

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,

Jasmine Guinness

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

We've done walking tours before, ... Citizens Bank has sponsored them to take them to a new level.

Alex Wong

With mortgage rates falling as banks compete aggressively for business, homebuyers are being encouraged to buy apartments.

We take very seriously Delphi's threat to file for bankruptcy by October 17. If Delphi files for bankruptcy, we couldn't rule out a ratings change (for GM).

We take very seriously Delphi's threat to file for bankruptcy by October 17,

We support credit counseling, especially if it's delivered early, and this is not early intervention. This is late intervention at the point where people have decided that bankruptcy is the only way for them. We just wonder whether this kind of late intervention will be helpful to too many people.

We thought we would be going there as it is the first game and Wales see it as their banker green.

David Walker

We can confirm that the offices of our private bank in Sao Paulo were searched yesterday. We are fully cooperating with the authorities.

E. P. Thompson

This will not be a bank that a consumer ever sees. Its only customer is Wal-Mart.

Elliott Abrams

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling.

In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.

Jim Yong Kim

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Laura Wasser

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