Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Cornish

So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.

So in the background, too, is the notion that if there is any move to sell the dollar, there will be central bank intervention.

She talks about not taking money from contractors, (but) she's taken $600,000 from the banks she does business with. And she changed the policy. Prior to her becoming treasurer, the policy was no money from banks.

Ben Bernanke

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

David Walker

We're going to have to restructure Social Security and Medicare. And, frankly, Social Security will be a lot easier than Medicare. If there's one thing that could bankrupt America, it's health care. And it's out of control.

Unless I can convince the bank otherwise, I now have to have the parents of the minors designated as guardians and set up guardianship accounts.

United certainly made a lot of cost reductions. But whether they really had a metamorphosis to compete without the help of a bankruptcy court remains to be seen.

US Treasuries, particularly long-term bonds, were robust on Friday, when the Japanese market was closed. Some bond investors view the surge in stocks as bubble while some investors take comfort in the view that the zero-interest rate policy will continue even after the Bank of Japan lifts ultra-loose monetary stance.

Year-on-year growth of 2.2-percent exactly matched the Bank of England's forecast... reinforcing expectations that interest rates are set to remain unchanged for several more months to come.

Michael Birch

With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere; either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades.

With the likelihood that the Reserve Bank will be easing sooner rather than later, and other parts of the world actually raising rates, the pressure's going to remain on the currency.

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to respond with lower interest rates in the near term.

We feel that we can get a better settlement in negotiations voluntarily with Northwest management than we can get through the bankruptcy court,

We're expanding our branches in the Florida market, going to full banking centers to focus on customer service.

We're banking on these kids that come to take over.

Ricky Romero

We're banking on coming back to nothing, ... or not coming back at all.

Kenneth C. Griffin

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

This suggests more weakness and casts doubt on the sustainability of stronger consumer spending. The Bank of England's growth forecasts look a bit optimistic.

Jack Jones

We?re really going to have even more demand on the food bank than in the past because of high energy costs. ?Can I pay my heating bill, or do I eat, this week?? That?s a tough spot to be in.

Glenn Tilton

With these filings before the court, the countdown has begun, ... We expect to formally exit bankruptcy in early 2006, with a target exit date of February 1st.

We leveraged our relationship with private banks and reached out to Internet service providers to create a low-cost Web site that will enable users to register once and subsequently transact with the government,

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

When trying to get a new business or property started up, I find that local banks are much better at seeing the vision you have laid out for the business or property because the investment is in their backyard. They tend to share that vision.

When the score is toted up, we think he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived.

When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline.

The plant's once-through cooling is continually killing fish. Mitigation can be used to make up for the past, but it can't be used as a bank for future losses.

The place is growing very rapidly and the banking sector is growing as a multiple of that.

John Butler

There are two camps at the Bank of England: one that thinks there is too much liquidity in the market, and the other is concerned about a lack of growth. The report tends to have subtle changes that lay the groundwork for the next three months. It's more about the message.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

We're short on money for Kentucky's most important priorities. In that case, they have to come before just having money sit in bank accounts.

We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big opportunities our senior management sees globally.

We're looking at a pretty favorable environment for bank stocks, and financials in general, over the next three-to-six months. But what I would say is that there's still a little bit of an overhang in terms of the commercial banking sector, due to credit quality concerns. So that's going to weigh heavily on the banks. But we could see growth in some of the other areas. Brokerage continues to be very strong,