Famous Quotes & Sayings

My concern is the families we serve. We've always done what the food bank told us to do. The whole thing has been set up by the food bank.

Multinational/trust banks will probably broadly deliver on Wall Street estimates. However, we expect the quality of earnings to be poor as securities gains and other unusual items will commonly be used to offset weak trading results.

My bank has all my phone numbers. If something happens, they know how to get a hold of me.

More than 50 percent of the people who file bankruptcy file it incorrectly, and it is unnecessary in many of the cases. They have plenty of money to pay their bills, but are too disorganized.

Moody's chairman, Clifford Alexander, was on the board of WorldCom up until last year, ... The biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, and the chairman of Moody's was on the board. There's no way that should happen. He also shouldn't be on the board of the National Association of Securities Dealers. They're supposed to be independent.

More often than not, when you have a bankruptcy and the company emerges -- particularly when new equity is invested -- you can expect the current board will no longer be in place. It's just normal.

Mike Adams

Moose meat is, like all protein in the food banking business, just like gold,

Suriya

My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Now we are not dealing with kids having fun. We are dealing with criminals -- the Russian mafia. And online banking risks are there if your bank offers it, even if you don't use it.

Now the game has changed and there's a greater risk of capital loss. Banks won't take as many chances now.

Lupe Fiasco

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Now you have the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve all with the same interest-rate policy, and that's very positive. It's a strong indication that global central bankers will contain inflation and not necessarily choke off economic activity, which has been a big concern here.

Now you can bank from your computer at home or your laptop. What we keep coming back to is that our customers want to see a real person when they walk into a branch.

John Edwards

News bulletin, Mr. President. They don't have bank accounts,

Obviously, this is a different role to what he had in the past, but when he was (a central bank governor) he was quite outspoken and gave a number of speeches pushing a particular view, which I thought was always well informed.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Jonathan Raban

The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank

The primary driver behind the miss looks to be net interest margin compression, which we have seen from other banks that have reported this quarter. But it seems more pronounced with Sovereign.

Mahmoud Abbas

We need to look at the West Bank and end the occupation there,

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.

She's all-American. I think people saw, bank shots, post-ups, she does it all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years

Some banks use CDs as a loss leader to get their hooks in you." ()

Some central bankers perhaps are not seeing growth as strong as the survey data suggest.

shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get bankruptcy relief.