Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Liman

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts.

I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

Robert Rubin

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

Mike Adams

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

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.

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

She came up with a lot of big rebounds and defensive plays. She's our future star, a kid we're banking on to be our go to player. She really demonstrated that she has all the qualities and desire to be a great player.

She doesn't go down the chocolate aisle, but if she happens to pass one in the cosmetics section then that's great. That's what we are banking on to drive growth in the future.

We're having a science fiction week in investment banking land. They're throwing so much out it's confusing the market.

This probe will reveal whether Poland had to change its banking sector this way over the last 17 years, or are there people who have erred. Surely, no foreign investor will be worse off because of it.

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

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.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Dev Hynes

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Lawrence Summers

We want to be candid about the need for them to reform their banking system and do more on trade and the like, but the guy (Hashimoto) is also under a lot of pressure right now.

Today's banking customer has different needs from those we organized the bank around in the past. Each month customers now make 5.5 million calls to our service centers, and log on 9 million times to do their banking online. This has had a transformational effect on our business, and we have to manage the bank accordingly.

Anthony Burgess

There is lots of scope for European banking deals.

There is a very real risk that Koizumi's plans to reform the banking sector will be so watered down that they will end up pleasing no one.

Wal-Mart sees banking as an opportunity to give the customer a better deal. That's what Wal-Mart's about. That's why they have demolished the food and toy industries. If it's better for the customers, then that's the way it ought to be.

We operate in a very intensely regulated world, including the mutual funds we manage and our company, which is publicly traded. Jerry Rubinstein has unique technical knowledge and skills; he is a CPA and an attorney. Furthermore, Rubinstein has tremendous entrepreneurial experience in the capital markets with leadership roles in several industries, ranging from oil and banking to the music industry.

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

Philipp Meyer

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

I think we had normal consolidation here. It seems like people are banking on a better second half. I don't think it's going to run away, but it's going to get gradually better.

I think a lot of it had to do with fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives, ... I think there will be a rebounding in capital markets in the second quarter. I expect them to bounce back with a more healthy investment banking business.

I think because the banking system in Iraq is still in its fairly early stages of development it will be a question of putting in place fundamental services,

We are consistently one of the fastest-growing banking companies in Virginia.

We've got this game at practice where we shoot it when we're down. She's always the best at shooting it and banking it. That was a big moment and shift.

Two important profit drivers, namely cost cuts and loan loss provisions, are faltering, and that is a trend to watch for the whole banking sector.

David Jones

Two good things have happened in Japan. We've overcome the uncertainty of who the leader's going to be; and secondly, they are listening to the markets, in terms of permanent tax cuts, in terms of banking reform.