Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Bertolt Brecht

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Peter McKay

Watchfire has taken its significant experience in the financial services market and developed a new banking compliance module to automate the cumbersome and daunting process of identifying online compliance risks specific to the banking industry for faster resolution and prevention,

Andrew Bell

What we're seeing is people banking enormous profits in these stocks.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing more and more that Japan wants to implement banking reform. That's the key. That's very positive.

Bill Gates

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Bill Gates

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

Carlos Rogers

We were in an all-out blitz, ... and we were banking on them not having time to throw it. We've got to tighten out coverage up, because at times we can't rely on the blitz getting there .

Cedrick Wilson

We are always banking on our gadget plays.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Rakesh Mohan

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

May Yan

While large banks need to cut network and work forces to enhance efficiency, small city commercial banks may need to expand to increase economy of scale.

Michael Birch

With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere; either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades.

Stuart Eizenstat

We leveraged our relationship with private banks and reached out to Internet service providers to create a low-cost Web site that will enable users to register once and subsequently transact with the government,

Sharon Hadary

As more and more women started their own businesses, banks started providing capital, markets started opening up to them, and women became involved in established networks for expertise, coaching and referrals. There was a circular effect that encouraged more women to go into business.

Greg Gibson

All of us had worked for big banks before. We weren't real enthused about that prospect, ... Once the transaction was closed, I think we all looked at each other and saw it in everybody's eyes and said, 'Hmmm, this is not where we want to be.'

Frank Bochte

It's just a greater opportunity with more banks and longer hours.

William Lerach

It sends a very serious message to those banks that have not yet settled that they better get about settling soon or they are going to pay more and more as time goes by,

Rob Lowe

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Laura McDowell

They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.

Arthur Jr.

This is a very serious crime. Once the hackers are identified, we will prosecute them to the full extent of the law.

Roger Levine

It's a taxable gift only to the extent that it reduces your allowable (lifetime) exemption,

Stacy Palmer

As people see the extent of the damage, they're likely to keep giving in big ways.

Russell Smith

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Leonor Varela

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

Laurent Brancowitz

I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Loic Fauchon

We want man to once more become a friend of water, so let's hurry up, as there is extreme urgency.

Gene Kimmelman

We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.

Kevin Norrish

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Robert Hauser

There is no question that (post-mortem studies would reveal) a higher failure rate.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Mark Powell

With this level of failure, it makes little sense to weaken protections for fish,

Deepak Chopra

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

Edwin Land

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

John Logan

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

Steven R. McQueen

Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

Pina Bausch

Your fragility is also your strength.

Pope Francis

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Terri Teuber

There is no question that different consideration would have been given to the situation if people were going hungry.

Jim Bowden

We respect the arbitrators' decision. We feel that it's a good salary for the team and a good salary for the player given his talents.

Jack Thompson

What we're saying is that Devin Moore was, in effect, trained to do what he did. He was given a murder simulator,

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

Robert Ferguson

Absurd. The prediction of a 4-degree increase in global temperatures in the next 100 years is ridiculous, and that kind of an increase in sea level is greatly overblown.

Nancy Nolan

It's just to let people in Lexington ... know what's going on ... in the surrounding communities and what's going on with global warming.

Sam Pitroda

It is time we structure our institutions of knowledge to be a global player in the 21st century.

Steve Darendinger

For instance if a new supplier didn't have global capability, we would work with the supplier to improve its global capacity.

Jim McMahon

It's too late. It's a global ecology. There will always be different species invading. We're really past the point of being able to do anything about it.

Albert Pang

It's the price you have to pay to live in a global village. You have to share the rewards.

Kenneth Rogoff

this means that 2005 is only going to be a very good year for global growth, rather than the spectacular one it might have been but for oil prices.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Joni Finney

At first it will be business, then it will be other high-cost majors like nursing and engineering. We're really discouraging people from going into high-demand fields.

Al Rauch

It seems like it's not really a major association,

David Flum

This is a major operation in a high-risk population.

John Thorn

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

Al Becker

It's tough to know how we're going to respond. This is an extraordinarily competitive industry. If something occurs at a major competitor, we'll have to take a look at that.

Tim Sloane

It's not like we haven't seen this before from every major vendor with every major product. I don't think it's going to make all that much of a difference.