Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhang Jun

These transportation projects, especially the metro lines, will further spur the real estate market, which has already shown signs of life this year as commercial banks show more interest in providing home loans.

Once the camel's nose is underneath the tent, community banks are going to lose their battle.

Once people find out what it's for, they're really giving, ... Two little boys emptied their piggy banks for it.

Thomas Ken

It's not quite like Donald Trump and the Beverly Hillbillies, but the differences in these two banks are striking.

For markets, this is another sign that concerted tightening by global central banks is progressing.

For big banks that want to remain major players, this move is going to force them to make strategic mergers, just like 1998.

Foreign central banks will continue to buy Treasuries, so I am a little bullish. Yields may drop below 4.30 percent in the short-term.

Foreign central banks are doing precisely the same thing -- and in much larger magnitudes than our own Federal Reserve. Therefore we should be focusing a lot more on the influence that they are having on our markets and our economy,

Sallie Krawcheck

For banks to be global, they need to -- in their estimation -- have a strong securities presence. For companies to have a strong securities presence internationally and globally they have to have a strong presence in the U.S.

Carol Bartz

I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.

In France, there are all sorts of possibilities. You either have banks buying other banks abroad, as BNP Paribas did, or you have possible domestic deals.

It's likely that a fair number of the smaller banks might see their clients, good clients, leave (for foreign banks).

Michael McDonald

I've got pictures of people taking money into banks on moving carts.

The report was taken with a sigh of relief, and since its release we've seen demand for banks and financials increase.

The report was taken with a sigh of relief, and since its release, we've seen demand for banks and financials increase.

The report confirmed that consumer prices are inching up And that deflation is about to end. Domestic demand- related stocks such as banks may advance.

John Ridley

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

There's a litter problem here. People clean their fish on the banks on don't clean up the mess.

This may be the realization after a long period of time that gold is no longer the bedrock of the world's financial system. And if it's no longer required as a reserve currency, then it makes sense for central banks to reduce their holdings of gold and convert to more profitable investments.

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

Jack Layton

They're about dimes and dollars. A few dimes to you in tax cuts, many, many dollars to banks and oil companies.

They're not robbing banks because they got laid off from their jobs at General Motors.

Tom Green

There's a very thin market and the banks seem to be taking their toll on the market.

There's a trend now for central banks in the region to raise rates. Thailand has been raising rates since last year and it has served them well.

There's a threshold, and once you cross it, you're really not a credit union in the true sense of the word. After you've grown to be about a billion dollars or $5 billion, and you're offering everything from life insurance to stock brokerage to the full range of financial products ---- perhaps some community banks in the market don't even offer ---- it seems the tax exemption they enjoy is a bit misplaced.

Jeffrey Sachs

If the whole world went into recession, all the major central banks could cut interest rates and expand the money supply.

Muhammad Yunus

If you look at the gender composition of all the borrowers of all the banks in Bangladesh, not even 1% of the borrowers happen to be women.

If you imagine all the speculation we've had in past months with banks, then not one is off the possible-target field. All banks are put into that play.

In this area, SWIFT can also play a constructive role by introducing to Chinese banks the internationally-proven standard and global best practice.

In the 1990s, the state banks shoveled those deposits to inefficient state companies. The end result was a large number of nonperforming loans.

In some sense the risk the central banks run is they are coming in a little too late.

In our industry, more borrowing means we are making more money and growing, ... Our business is simple: We borrow money from banks at approximately 7 percent and loan that money out to our customers at a much higher rate. So our bank debt only goes up when consumer demand for our loans goes up.

Investors are prioritizing investment into the financial sector now. Fundamentals look good and I expect banks to post further profit gains.