Famous Quotes & Sayings

You are going to see a flood of deals from insurance companies and banks that started proprietary fund families and have been unable to successfully distribute them through their captive sales organizations.

We will see banks returning money to shareholders, but why not develop the business too?

We've got the economy at full capacity. I prefer to see the Bank of Canada continue to raise rates.

We've gotten into the point of sale and are present directly in shops. We've gotten more involvement from European banks and that already has been a measure of success.

Richard Brown

We've had five straight years of record earnings for the industry, we haven't seen a bank failure in six quarters. That is a historic strong financial performance for the industry that's taken place under a very benign set of economic conditions and that's not necessarily going to persist in the future.

We have central banks that are trying to frame exit strategies from unusually accommodative conditions.

We have carefully evaluated our options and decided that -- as one of the nation's leading retail banks -- we will issue credit cards directly.

We have called for flexibility of central bank stand on the situation of the market. The governor told me that he would review the matter of releasing dollar to the commercial banks, if necessary.

We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never know, it might be your dentist, or your doctor or your banker serving you because everybody participates.

Wages aren't at a level that's going to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. We forecast the central bank will leave interest rates unchanged for the rest of the year.

Wage and labor conditions have been a lot stronger than expected. We expect the bank to end its zero-rate policy in the third quarter.

With the financials, that entire space has been tarnished by a confidence crisis. Also, on a more fundamental level rather than a psychological level, there's no investment banking business going on right now. The concerns remain about the banks' exposure to bankrupt telecoms WorldCom and Global Crossing,

We've done performance comparisons of our scores, including bankruptcy scores, and generally they are very predictive.

Ryan Holmes

During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.

Paul Singer

What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe - if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined.

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.

Nouriel Roubini

While central banks care less than private investors about the return on their investments, they're not completely clueless,

Robert Johnson

Whether you run a Family Dollar store, whether you're a bank loaning out money at certain interest rates, you get a gut-check from the marketplace.

We don't see inflation shooting up because of what has happened in the labor market. I have a fairly benign outlook for inflation, in line with the Bank of England forecast.

We expect banks to perform a risk analysis, and, based on that risk analysis, provide an extra layer of security by the end of the year.

We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business,

We filed for bankruptcy and set up this process to flesh out the real interest from potential buyers, ... We feel the greatest value to our creditors would come from a strategic arrangement that preserves the company as a going concern.

We have strong momentum in all our businesses as the benefits from continued execution in our consumer businesses were accompanied this quarter by a rebound in trading and good performance in investment banking and wealth management.

We caught them on tape lying to a federally insured bank to obtain financial information. And the trafficking is the unfair part.

We do think it's a matter of time both the Bank of Japan and government officials begin their chorus of escalating threats and warnings, which could prove ineffective .

David Dickinson

We do some high-quality work in our banking group, but if we want to do more of it we need more people.

Well, I was counting on both of those (JV) kids. We have good varsity and JV kids at both of those weights, so I was really banking on that to happen.

We must provide the Central Bank with more flexible Stabilization Fund investment portfolio, while giving a small sum of about $1 billion to investment companies, to see whose management is more effective.

Sam Worthington

When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

When you're the world's banker, you really need to maintain the world's confidence in you and your currency. If you start telling creditors you're going to pay them back in currency that doesn't buy as much, they won't want to bank with you any more.

We believe the rate has peaked already. Bank Indonesia will want to make sure that inflation is on a definite down-trend before they cut.

I was approached about a month ago. It was unexpected and unsolicited. I've seen how investment banks work from the other side of the fence but I've a lot to learn about how they work on the inside.

Most of the major banks have already been giving the data anyway, so comparability won't be a problem, because we already have the data.