Famous Quotes & Sayings

I really would be surprised if they filed. The part of the equation that is missing in a typical bankruptcy situation is that vendors are not clamping down on them. Vendors are not limiting the distribution of merchandise.

Don Baylor

I looked at Mel. He was healthy. I was banking on that.

M. C. Gainey

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

I personally went out and talked to people in the community. There were individual donations, and I went to a few banks as well. One private donor gave me $25,000. Many people were very supportive. I got $40,000, but people can still make donations if they want.

Will Durant

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Will Durant

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Tom Metzger

Citizens Bank Foundation is proud to support New Hampshire Technical Institute's nursing program. This project will provide more opportunities for New Hampshire residents to receive the specialized training they need, especially in a field where there is such a significant shortage. New Hampshire Technical Institute's program will meet this need and help strengthen our communities.

Citigroup is a latecomer to China's banking industry and it has catching up to do. It makes more sense for Citigroup to explore other options, such as taking stakes in Guangdong Bank, which also has a national distribution network, to help them expand.

Citigroup being a big new buyer does put a little more consolidation potential in the mid-sized bank stocks.

Because its three main competitors shot the lights out, Bank of New York's solid, respectable results disappointed people.

His cabinet is utterly bankrupt -- financially and intellectually, ... blackmail and pressure.

His investment in this bank is in a hedge fund. None of the investors know how that money is invested. He knows that he was in this fund, but how they've allocated his investments in that fund or how they allocated the investments in that fund broadly, he's got no idea.

Californians seeking reform know better than to bank on media polls,

Canada's had a rough ride the last little while and it started with the March Bank of Canada meeting.

Canada's dollar still has a lot of supporters out there. The economy is performing very well and the central bank may go further.

Ted Forrest

Canada does have a big stake and the governor of our central bank should definitely put forward his opinions on these kinds of issues.

Jonathan Raymond

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.

Canadian banks are all looking for opportunities to grow in the United States.

Before the scheme we used to occasionally take glass bottles to recycling banks but that was it.

I am quite sure that in 100 years there will be much fewer currencies and central banks in the world.

I am too scared to buy bonds. I haven't seen any investor purchase debt recently as it's hard to know when yields will stop rising amid speculation the central bank will raise its key overnight rate.

Central banks rarely intervene unilaterally, and when they do, it's a sign of weakness.

Central banks continue to be guided by macroeconomic models that relate to an economy that no longer exists.

Central banks around the world are on the horns of the dilemma of experiencing weak growth and rising inflation, which have contradictory implications for rates.

Central banks are raising interest rates, and that's risky for stocks. Expectations for earnings growth are too high.

Capital levels are extremely high. Banks will be in good shape.

But when it comes to providing community-banking level services, it's been a peer for many years. This deal enables Bank of North Carolina to leapfrog into becoming a player in Greensboro with no overlap concerns and without the expense of opening branches there.

Maria Sanchez

But it's not as likely to succeed in states with emerging Hispanic populations such as North Carolina. The strategy still depends too much on going through mainstream banking contacts, and many Latinos still prefer to transfer through independent stores in their communities.

But that cycle is over. The banks are going to get squeezed.

Business conditions at the banks will not be swayed by the latent loss.

Richard Davies

This is a critical time for our nation's youth. Many U.S. Bank employees are seizing the opportunity to empower students with the information they need to learn how to save money and enrich their financial futures.

This guy goes into a bank and he passes a note and sometimes a handgun has been shown.

They're trying to create a sense of concern so that when the government goes out to banks and local governments and says, 'Here's what you need to do,' there will be some pressure.