Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Russell

as gold works its way higher, and as central bank inflation continues, the 'great unwashed public' will become increasingly more concerned with protecting their purchasing power and protecting what wealth they still possess. Thus fear of loss of wealth and purchasing power will continue to power the great bull market in real money -- gold.

Ed Mierzwinski

As for the consumer, I think the savings is diminished compared to how much more the bank will make in these transactions. They are trying to increase the use of debit cards to increase their profits.

Stephen Schwartz

As Bank Indonesia has recognized, it will be important to continue to monitor developments and raise interest rates as needed in the near future,

Cheri Butcher

As a bank we have a fiduciary obligation to our customers and their money. The services necessary for an individual's investment plan might not all come out of the same department. We might refer them to our loan department for debt consolidation for example.

Carolyn Kwan

The business conditions survey is going to take center stage for Canada, maybe in particular because the Canadian dollar seems to be playing an important role in the Bank of Canada's thinking now.

Paul Blank

A Wal-Mart bank not only dangerously mixes commerce and banking, but represents a disturbing concentration of capital in the hands of one single corporation, Wal-Mart.

Pierre Omidyar

A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.

R. Inge

Bank results have been in line with expectations. But the talk is more the rebound in the oil prices and the pick up in the resource stocks as the quarterly earnings come out.

Tom Woods

Bank regulators understand that investor confidence is very important.

Carolayne Holley

At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then they're just sitting around for an hour without any customers while the brides and their guests watch the show.

John Richardson

As long as it's done in a sympathetic nature it's for the best. It will provide customers for everyone and keep the Old Town alive.

Ron Johnson

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

David Parker

Profits outside of Florida were good. Inside they were pressured. We were expecting the utility to do a little better, but that's what happens when you have three-quarters of your customers out for a week or two.

Tom Barrett

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John Fitzpatrick

Our dealers were telling us, 'We can sell a luxury truck, you just have to work on your execution,' ... We went back to the customers to research it further, and it turned out the dealers were spot on.

Bill Cummings

Our customers will receive a great Starbucks experience.

Amitabh Srivastava

Our customers will have a feature-complete Windows Vista sooner in their hands than any previous Windows release.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Phyllis Reed

The monetization of debt will reverse yen strength and release money to leave Japan, which has always been the big problem.

Zeng Jun

Debt is like a double edged sword. Use it well and you shall win the war. Use it wrongly and you shall see your name in the tombstone...

Tom Daschle

a revisit back to the early 1980s -- $3 trillion of debt later.

Michael Tanner

The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize.

Dick Hamilton

So we're paying about $2 million a year on debt reduction,

Kevin Watkins

on debt at least it sounds encouraging, it seems there has been some progress.

Steve O'Connor

Some people say you should pay down as much debt as possible. But you might make more by investing the money.

Brian Redican

The state's doing it tough. And the fundamentals of weak house prices and record household debt mean there's not much light at the end of the tunnel.

Nancy Lee

Some department heads feel they're losing some (prospective) faculty members to the private sector, which can offer better benefits.

Steve Douglas

The Rural Fire Department (east of Pueblo), Rye and Pueblo West fire departments all have permit systems within their districts.

Tish Olszewski

It was very difficult to realize that he wasn't going to be there today. The department is devastated. . . . We're going to miss him dearly. We love him.

Eddie Compass

I served this department for 26 years and have taken it through some of the toughest times of its history. Every man in a leadership position must know when it's time to hand over the reins.

Marcus Jones

The win also reflects well on the faculty, department and university. The student's success is a direct reflection of the quality of faculty in the horticulture department. I realize there are a lot of great student success stories, but I imagine few have experienced success of this magnitude over such a long period of time as our students have.

Alice Fisher

This is not something the department should be getting involved with,

Minsun Ji

The whole department doesn't have an enforcement mechanism.

Patrick Brown

The Mississippi Department of Education provides statewide filters on our online network.

Don Allison

The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

H. Hart

At this point, there is nowhere that I can find any other money but we need to have more investment put in this system to keep the system the way it is today.

Chris Norton

We think public investment there will spur private investment.

Makoto Ebata

We will put the priority on investment rather than profitability for the time being.

Brad Bradshaw

This was the largest mid-cycle investment in Nissan's history.

David Malone

We don't think long term it meets our target for investment returns.

Pat Gelsinger

We see a fundamental shift away from IT investment in the U.S.,

Robert Kiyosaki

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

Louis Friedman

Everything we pour into the shuttle is an investment in the past.

Suze Orman

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Stuart Pearce

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said 'no', I don't think they want him to go anywhere.

Jean Chatzky

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Wesley Hill

We have two options. We could give them the money or we could support or back a loan for them.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Mike Rumph

This is not a stopgap, ... It might be like this for a while.

Daunte Culpepper

That's how it is. You might go through a stretch like that sometimes. Hopefully, I'll go through a stretch when I throw 12 or 15 touchdowns in a row without a pick.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Sterling Ivey

We wanted to take all necessary safety precautions.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

John Egan

If DSS isn't going to do anything, then it may not be necessary for us to do anything.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Ann Swearingen

As long as there are soldiers that need it, we plan to continue.

Pat Campbell

Anything is possible, but that's something you'd have to plan for.

Ozzie Guillen

I've always got to have a Plan B. Always.

Donald Rumsfeld

So the suggestion that there isn't a plan strikes me as more a talking point than a reality,

Laura Bush

so younger workers have years to prepare and plan for their future.

Mary Oliver

Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Alan Greenspan

The word 'measured' is more of a plan than a pledge,

Lindsey Graham

If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

Jeff Carter

This referendum is just not going to fly.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.