Famous Quotes & Sayings

Broadly diversified financial services firms, and banks in particular, are looking to augment their revenue, ... This is essentially a bet that the U.S. consumer, contrary to what you may read, is not tapped out.

Michael Lewis

Bruce and I both put $50 in a bank account. That's how we started the company.

Ted Turner

We are unaware of any fraudulent use of Ted Turner's credit cards or bank statements.

We are trying to get all of them back to work to get the bank up and running so we can help the people.

We think it's one of the best statements from the bank in a long time. It states the case pretty clearly. It's unequivocal.

We're discussing with various parties, including the U.S. trustee in the bankruptcy case, the best way to proceed. We will hopefully come to some conclusions in due course.

We see CCB as a bank on the move. But it remains a work in progress. There is still a lot of ground to cover.

We see a substantial risk of a financial crisis as an integral part of an Icelandic 2006-2007 recession. The funding squeeze of the banks will probably force them to reduce lending to domestic players, and force a sell off of external assets.

We see another 25 basis-point rate hike next month. The central bank seems to be a little bit concerned the economy may be growing too fast. The Canadian dollar will continue to do well.

Very often central bankers don't want to give a very clear message because they want to convey the uncertainty, and they tend to use this rather strange language.

You don't keep customers by insulting them or downgrading them, ... When you're in a meeting with buy-side clients, you say 'This is an investment banking client.' It's a code word for 'I'm not going to be harsh on this client,' or 'You need to read between the lines.'

You go check your bank account. Works for me.

Paul Watson

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

Rick Pitino

I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.

This sparkling Opera Box production promises to transport everyone to the banks of the Danube.

This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.

This type of bankruptcy is for the person who is barely making it, who can barely pay their rent or mortgage and food and has no extra money to pay debts. It relieves them of the debt and removes the creditors' rights to sue the debtor.

David Goyer

What recently happened in London, what's going on in Iraq and the West Bank -- people are scared. Historically, when people have been scared and people have been nervous, there's been an uptick in science fantasy horror. It happened in the '50s with the Red Scare and the space race. . . . You're telling allegorical tales and shining a light back on society. . . . It's a way to talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

Bertolt Brecht

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?

We got a quality quarterback in Brad Banks and two guys who can make a significant, immediate impact on the offensive line.

We found through the years that even though the names of banks may change, if you have the same people in those offices, serving the customers and doing a great job, the customers will be happy. And we think being a part of Capital One will make our service even better.

David Wright

We have 4.9 per cent stake in UTI Bank and would like to increase it,

We have 30 other sponsors, mostly auto-related businesses in Benton and West City, but we also receive support from banks and insurance companies.

We cannot supply milk for every child in Canada who might need it. So we would be thrilled to have other banks joining us in Canada.

Alan Greenspan

We cannot be a central bank for others.

We want to pay our own bank to do what we pay money centers to do now, which is to process debit and credit transactions to payment networks.

We just do not see this economic recovery. Last month was yet another record unemployment level, and land prices continue to fall - and land is the collateral that banks use.

You have two clean-up guys who have both sold and purchased banks and have done very well for their shareholders.

To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game

You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game.

We wanted our customer base to be owning our bank, and that's how it's worked out. I think in the long term, you're better off having a community bank owned by the community.

Bobby Labonte

We've had some success at Fontana, but have never won there. It's a lot like Michigan, which is a track I really like, but the banking is a little less at California. I like the racetrack and, hopefully, we'll have some success there this weekend. We ran decent in February at Fontana, but we never really got a handle on the car. Hopefully we'll improve on that this week.