Famous Quotes & Sayings

Always store your bank receipts, bank records, credit card information and other personal papers in a secure location. Don't leave them lying about in your home or car. Protect any photo identification card. Don't carry your social security card in your purse. Don't use your social security number as your driver's license number, and don't print your social security number or driver's license number on your checks.

A lot of the banks have been able to grow their deposits very nicely. That was partly due to all of us being too scared to put our money in the stock market, or the bond market for that matter.

A lot of people used to talk about the financial supermarket but it's clear that companies aren't getting rewarded for that model anymore. For the foreseeable future, it's likely banks will be spinning off (or selling) their insurance operations.

A lot of people think they have to live in rentals because they either don't make enough money to own a home or they have a couple of glitches on their credit. But that's just not the case. We have partnered with Bank of America, Bernalillo County, HUD and four other lenders that make it easy to get into your own home.

A lot of people will open a bank account, and they don't realize they need to have a transaction every year or it will become dormant.

A lot of people who have immigrated into the United States don't necessarily have bank accounts.

A lot of the savings dollars rest in the mainstream banks but I don't think the consumer has got the best deal out of that and has not necessarily been provided with the most appropriate product.

All you need to know is in the change in terms, ... The bankers have not been able to generate enough institutional interest.

A May rate cut is more likely than not, but the Bank is likely to need to see ongoing signs of lower-than-expected targeted inflation as well as weaker than expected Q1 GDP growth.

American has expressed views that United should have gone into bankruptcy with more cash available.

A lot of this is contingent on the Bank of Canada statement.

Also, civil society must stay vigilant because the details of the deal will be worked out over the upcoming weeks at the IMF and World Bank boards. What we have right now is only a broad agreement; the finer details are what will matter.

They may migrate in a direction, either up or down, depending on which bank becomes the lead on the consumer side.

Paul Wolfowitz

The mission of the World Bank is to reduce poverty and to promote economic development and that's really what I want to stress,

The misnomer or the misperception out there is that banking countries such as the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and Jersey are black holes. It is just not true,

You've seen several commercial banks make acquisitions of smaller regional brokerage firms this year, and all of them believe quite sincerely that they are going to grow revenues as a result and gain market share because they now offer one-stop comprehensive financing for their customers. At the same time I don't think Merrill Lynch is planning to lose any business.

You're looking at a minimum bid of $6 billion. This is, realistically, the last bank for foreign players to get into Korea.

You're going to always have volatility in investment banking earnings. But retail generally will be more consistent.

You really have an unfair, ironic and outrageous situation here, ... The one company that had the courage and took the steps of breaking with the entire industry ? is now in a position where it's going to be bankrupt if the settlement is enacted.

Young consumers are probably best served if they can get a major bank card early on

This is a really stunning retreat in retail sales. It reinforces our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic about consumer spending.

This is exactly what the Reserve Bank wants because increased investment reduces inflationary pressure and will help build capacity.

This is good for the company. It provides for future funding and it gets us out of bankruptcy sooner than we anticipated. It will be a seamless transition.

This is going to be a very, very long and painful process. In the next five years, all the mainline carriers will have been in bankruptcy at least once.

This is going to be a very, very long and painful process, ... In the next five years, all the mainline carriers will have been in bankruptcy at least once.

This is a supportive report for Bank of Canada's 'modest' rate hike plans -- good growth, but lower imported costs.

Jeff Davis

They have been opportunistic when opportunities present themselves ... they've probably got a couple dozen banks within the footprint that they have a high interest in if they were to sell.

They don't try to be Wal-Mart. Small banks recognize they need to specialize, rather than try to offer the full range of products. And specialization leads to more efficiencies.

They hadn't done bank records, so nobody could tell you exactly how much cash they had on hand. Nobody could reconcile the payroll accounts. Nobody could tell you how many employees they had.

They filed for bankruptcy some months ago, so this is something that is not completely unexpected, though we had hoped they would be able to work through their business issues and keep going.

The yen's strength is a shackle for the central bank that keeps it from shifting monetary policy. There's a risk bond yields will decline in the long run.

The yen is weakening so much versus other currencies. The pace of decline of the yen is causing stress and strain within Asia, where central banks may be showing some concern.

The yen is benefiting from a reversal of bets on yen-carry trades on concern the New Zealand dollar will fall. The unwinding of that trade also is going on amid speculation the central bank is getting closer to raising rates.