Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm concerned that there is going to be a run on the bank to get stuff done under the guise of Katrina.

I'm bullish on bank shares. The banking business in Japan is becoming better and better.

I'm bullish on bank shares, ... The banking business in Japan is becoming better and better.

If people are looking for excuses as to why the European Central Bank may feel their hands are a little tied in the short-term (on rates) they could use this, but I think there's a whole wealth of information suggesting that things are on the mend.

I had a fantastic finish to the year after a rough start. I was really quite pleased with my play from the Deutsche Bank Championship through the Southern Farm Bureau Classic. For some reason, I have played my best golf on the PGA tour in the fall.

I had a fantastic finish to the year after a rough start, ... I was really quite pleased with my play from the Deutsche Bank Championship through the Southern Farm Bureau Classic. For some reason, I have played my best golf on the PGA tour in the fall.

If you buy in bulk - the banks are hoping you'll give them loans in bulk - then they'll give us incentives, which are lower rates to the clients.

I like two stocks, Apache and Ocean Energy. I don't own either of them. The firm doesn't make a market in any of them. We don't have an investment banking relationship, to the best of my knowledge, but I think both stocks have done well in the poor market, ... Apache is really building a pipeline of reserves. They drill in seven major countries. They're natural gas rich. They have held in this market and I think we can look for big earnings coming up over the next year or two.

Bobby Jones

I remember I went home and surprised my parents for Christmas. I know I had a good game. I made a lot of bank shots. Those rims treated us well.

George Cole

I received quite a lot of ribbing whenever I went into the bank and people were always offering me Havana cigars - it was very nice.

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.

I have talked to Berlusconi repeatedly about the budget and the Bank of Italy since August, but to no avail,

Jim Calhoun

I have to give a special star to Denham. With Rudy (Gay) out the last three days (groin), Denham has been our special player. I told him he's put money in the bank - all the work ethic, all the things he's doing, he's got some chits with me now. Just all over the place, running as hard as I've ever seen him, making shots that I didn't see him make before, handling better, passing better - I'm exceptionally happy with him.

I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying companies that are repatriating large sums and doing what they can to get their business.

I have said from day one that I would use the threat of bankruptcy and that the unions will respond to that threat and come back to the negotiating table,

High-tech gains are sort of a given. But if bank shares continue to struggle after Monday's dismal losses, that could put a damper on the broader market.

He's shown a tremendous dedication and energy, but I don't think that the bank and the fund (IMF) have been effective institutions in actually solving real problems.

Housing and commercial real estate have been a very important part of the economy in the Southeast and Florida. Banks are financing all of the development.

Michael Ward

I don't think it gets them out of their obligations. They have to find solutions and I do not believe bankruptcy is an option.

Sebastien Loeb

I didn't see anything. I touched a bank of snow so it was a little bit dangerous.

It was symbolic. The long decline in bank lending has come to an end.

G. H. Hardy

It will be a nice initiative but I don't think it will bring back mass-market statistics that you can bank a business on.

It's a weak market like this, it's easy to take negative news to sell, such as with the banks today.

It's a country developing very fast and it deserves to have low credit spreads. Investors like myself with pension funds and central banks will just buy into any weakness.

It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged, the U.S. is down and so is the price of crude, ... The FTSE especially is very oil heavy.

It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?

It is really something that the customer won't see. Our proposal is to operate a small bank that will be housed in a sixth floor office suite.

It is quite possible that Wal-Mart could, at some point, follow a similar course by simply opening a thousand bank branches in its stores and then challenging Congress to close them down. We think Wal-Mart will do this and that Congress will back down.

It is very hard for land-based banks to start an online-only bank.

It is very doubtful the 10-year yield reflects the outlook the central bank will soon change monetary policy. It is hard for investors to buy debt when the economy has strong growth momentum.

It's a good offer, but it's probably as far as Bank of Scotland can go. RBS will probably step in as a kind of white knight.

E. B. White

It's a great cost-cutting story right now. You've got very good management, excellent links into the consumer. And they've been there with the electronic banking for a long, long while. So, that's one that we definitely would be accumulating at these prices.