Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a done deal. The ECB and Bank of England will leave interest rates on hold.

It's an interesting avenue. It's just a smaller niche than other things banks are doing.

It was a classic case of when there's a lot of noise, the best thing a central bank can do is nothing.

It's tough for the local banks to lend for longer than five years.

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

Richard Greenberg

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

Is this the thin end of the wedge in terms of bank profitability? There will be more to come.

Sean Pertwee

I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points.

Bethany McLean

It was actually in retrospect a pretty meek story. It didn't say that the company is a fraud and going to go bankrupt in nine months. In fact, if you had said to me at the time that Enron is going to go under, I'd have said, 'Are you kidding?' It just didn't quite make sense. In retrospect I fault myself for not questioning it more than I did.

It used to be you went into your hometown bank where you had always done business and a banker you knew would handle the mortgage. It was all local. Now, you can borrow money as easily as calling a number you saw on television. One loan and then another loan - it all starts to pile up.

It will be gradual. China's financial markets and their banking system are extraordinarily fragile. They cannot endure the rough and tumble of the global financial markets.

It will reduce the chance of the Reserve Bank moving at the May meeting.

They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism,

The world's central banks have certainly decided U.S. Treasury notes are a better long term investment than gold.

The U.S. banks are significantly more profitable than the European banks.

The urgency to appoint a true deflation fighter at the Bank of Japan is not going to disappear with this report.

They are going to tighten one last time in April. Risk on the economic growth is on the downside. This doesn't provide great reason for the bank to go further.

They want to steal your identity so that they can commit fraud or rob your bank account, or charge purchases on your credit card information.

They want to fine the union into bankruptcy and put our leaders in jail.

They walk in, look at the specials and they just keep walking. A lot of people think we're the customer service counter. We're always trying to bring awareness, letting people know that we're here and open seven days a week. It's an excellent convenience, you can do your grocery shopping and do your banking all at the same time.

E. B. White

They've still got improvement that can be done on the credit side, where a lot of banks have already been hurt, ... Revenue growth is going to be slow but they can make earnings and have good profit growth just by not shooting themselves in the foot on the credit side.

They'll up the ante because they now have the bankruptcy judge behind them.

They'll say the bank requires you to get credit life insurance. They'll tell you the bank requires you to get this extended warranty.

The yield curve is flat and typically when that happens, banks are reluctant to lend money and the economy becomes vulnerable,

The yield curve inversion is something I think we're going to be living with probably longer than most people would hope. It is something that will take its toll on regional banking over time.

They have to find other ways to make money in Japan. Private banking was their best business, but they can't do that anymore.

Things can change dramatically. Nothing can stop the company from offering the same products most banks do today.

John W. Snow

It may be harder on some than on others, but overall the banking sector remains healthy and strong,

It's an opportunity to put the bank in front of the employees. We try to cover all areas. It's diversification for the bank.

It's an incremental step to develop its foreign-exchange market and make its currency more transparent. The central bank has been heavily involved in the market and will probably still intervene.

David Caruso

It's like owning a nice piece of real estate. You know it won't go bankrupt and you get a nice cash flow.

It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.

Peter Morgan

It's getting to the point where the Bank of Japan will start moving up rates gradually. There is upward pressure on prices and wages, which is something the Bank of Japan will look at quite carefully.