Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Cook

In the real estate industry, we are concerned about the precedent it sets to let banks be property managers and brokers.

In that environment banks should do well psychologically as well as fundamentally.

Thomas Stevens

If Congress does not want banks to engage in real estate brokerage or management, it is inconceivable that it intends to permit national banks to engage in real estate development, which is a much riskier activity.

If I look at our priority list on the things we need to do to get cost-competitive, wage rates are nowhere near the top for us. We have a far greater burden in legacy costs, in flexibility of using our work force, in jobs banks than we do in wage rates.

I certainly welcome discussions on how central banks can best contribute to sustained economic growth and sound development of the global economy.

Icelandic banks have effectively been shut out of global credit markets, and a credit crisis is just around the corner.

I can re-create everything in my lab, but it's going to be painful. Stem cells in the gene banks and the cancer cells in the tumor banks: Those are irreplaceable.

I don't think ever before have Wall Street banks and investors jointly petitioned the SEC to require more disclosure in public offerings.

Marc Faber

I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world, not just in America, will continue to decline because the cost of living increases will exceed income. The cost of living will also go up because all kinds of taxes will increase.

I don't think the jump is mainly caused by the revaluation of RMB. The main reason, I believe, is that commercial banks are tempted to put money in the inter-bank market where potential risks are lower than lending.

He's one for the future and not likely to put any immediate pressure on Craig Gordon and Steve Banks yet.

Because banks were having trouble deciding what was reasonable, we have gravitated toward 1 percent of the principal. This is not a hard and fast rule, and banks may establish other payment amounts.

Nelson George

By battling Eminem, they end up battling the whole family he's down with - 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Lloyd Banks - the biggest people in the game,

Jonathan Raymond

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.

Canadian banks are all looking for opportunities to grow in the United States.

Before the scheme we used to occasionally take glass bottles to recycling banks but that was it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It shows the world central banks recognize the financial markets could use a little extra liquidity and support, ... Hopefully it will help restore confidence. A lot of people expected we would see some sort of coordinated effort.

It's the basic economics of higher supply, lower price. Leasing companies lost money and banks jumped out of the leasing market. So the industry got more disciplined and now there are fewer vehicles around, so prices are going up again.

It's the banks that are leading it up.

It smacks of financial eavesdropping. It's not our role -- we're a service provider to small businesses. This proposal would put the credit card banks in a very strange position.

it is well known that banks are not held in high regard by personal customers or by the community.