Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bottom line? Unless you're a bankruptcy attorney, this isn't going to mean a thing to you.

Both years, I felt like we were fortunate to win. So you can't bank on last Friday's big 42-0 loss to New Braunfels meaning anything with regard to our game here Friday.

Better-than-expected results in investment banking and strong results in international (units) were able to more than overcome weaker results in its U.S. consumer business.

Everything was cut off. Really, the Outer Banks was impacted terribly. We definitely felt like the SBA did a good job. I give them a thumbs-up.

Everything this week is going to be hinging on the Bank of Canada early on -- there are also some important data points which should be supportive overall -- but the question really is the statement.

BNP Paribas has continued the trend of European banks beating at revenue level, but experiencing significant cost growth.

Debra Wilson

Black people are very discreet. You can't be a vice president of a Wells Fargo bank and be out if you're black. You can't do that.

Everybody knew this was coming. Nobody knew how banks would follow it.

Everybody has understood that banking is crucial to moving the field forward. This is a concrete step, and we're doing it first.

Everybody was waiting for the Bank of Japan's decision, and since they decided to postpone raising interest rates, that is taking the pressure off U.S. Treasuries and giving a lift to stocks.

John Gibbons

Baseball's a gamble. We went for the top two guys out there. We're banking on them. And they're banking on us.

As the government is growing increasingly receptive to the idea of a policy shift, the central bank could very well change policy as early as March 9.

Actually, the interior of the bank is as clean and smells as good as it has in the 12 years I've been here.

Substantial financial institutions on the ground (is important). I would never recommend to a client a small bank that has no affiliation with a larger institution.

Some people like the personal touch of going in and talking to the bank president.

Someone starts a bank in Dallas knowing that there are a number of buyers in the market. Most people don't start banks that they know won't sell.

Jay Sidhu

Sovereign Bank considers the Latino community in Rhode Island a key to future economic growth in the state. The bank can be very helpful by targeting capital and providing specialized services that will give the Latino community a boost toward financial success.

Speculation is growing that Fukui may say something definite about when the bank will change policy. Reports are showing the economy is strong and the timing of the move is getting closer.

So that when people get on airplanes after showing their ID, we know who they really are, and when they open up bank accounts, we will know who they really are also.

South Boston is very dynamic. When we bought this property, we were banking on all this planned investment in the area.

Once you endorse the check, it becomes your responsibility. The bank can carry the case to civil court or place a lien on your property.

Phil Hellmuth

One day I looked up and I had $20,000 in the bank and my student loans were paid off and I was 21, ... Then I started going to Vegas a lot.

Now it's no longer the case, and it's not just the old guard versus the new but those in West Bank and those in Gaza, the Palestinians living outside of Palestine and those living here, towns versus villages and so on.

Now its crucial for the Bush Administration to implement the strongest remedies possible -- even stronger on slabs than those recommended by the ITC -- to prevent further damage from a crisis that has already sent 26 companies into bankruptcy and wiped out 13 million tons of American steelmaking capacity,

John Meyers

Oil market profits are being diverted into gold in some instances as oil traders look to bank profits in this area, preferring gold as a potentially more stable alternative investment.

The months of October and November were terrific for Jefferson Parish -- on both banks of the river. They were selling record numbers.

The money you pay to the bank as interest has zero percent chance of it returning back to you. Save on that and reinvest that on any other things. Now that is lean financial management.

The technologies which seem to be receiving interest from the Bank include those with damaging social and environmental impacts, such as nuclear, large dams and so-called 'clean coal'. It is widely understood that these technologies will not help to bring people out of poverty, which is the World Bank's mission.

The targets of $600 to $625 are more and more a reality and mostly justified as concerns on inflation, geopolitical pressures in the Middle East and now with rates at comfortable levels, central bankers are stuck in a rock and a hard place.

The system was academically and financially bankrupt before the storm. We think there were a lot of good teachers and administrators working in the system, but there was just a lot of mismanagement.

The survey seems to be a little bit worse than people had anticipated. It does show that the manufacturing sector is struggling under the weight of the strong pound. It shows a squeeze on profit margins. It will raise a little bit of doubt about whether the Bank of England will have the courage to raise interest rates next week.

The surge in personal bankruptcy started a few years ago and has been building,

Isabella Bird

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.