Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zheng Jingping

Bank loans grew a bit faster in the first quarter, which has gained the attention of the State Council. Rapid expansion may boost the economy in the short term, but it will eventually lead to inflation and economic disorders and we should consider it seriously.

E. B. White

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Daylon McCutcheon

As players, we just decided we were going to go out there and play football. That is our job, to go out there, play football and not pay attention to other things going on. (Savage?s situation) is going to be taken care of regardless of what we want." ()

Steve Alford

As in the past, search committees and interested officials from other programs with openings for a head basketball coach have initiated contact. I'm flattered with the interest and the recognition of the outstanding season we had this year. With that success, comes attention and speculation that I cannot control. I have not scheduled any interviews with any other institutions.

David Marshall

As income levels rise, millions more people will become attractive banking clients. That is drawing the attention of foreign banks.

Bob Carter

At Lexus, we believe that the ultimate success is a satisfied and loyal customer. Our business model is based on treating every customer like a guest in our own home, which means providing the highest quality of attention and care at every level: from design conception to dealership and from purchase to service. This, more than any number, is our goal at all times.

Wu Xiaoling

Real estate financing is making up a bigger and bigger share of the country's financial sector . The health of real estate financing is of critical importance to the health of the financial sector. We must pay close attention to developments in both the real estate industry and home financing sectors.

Mark Gottfried

Randolph Morris was a factor from the tip. You could tell from the first minute that he wanted to make a difference, and he did. He causes you problems while he's on the floor, and you have to pay attention to him.

Adolf Rosenstock

Promises, promise, promises. These promises we have all heard before... Nobody pays much attention to them.

Gary Ozzello

Primarily what you're trying to do when you build a compensation package is not that different in some ways from the recruiting process - you want to come up with as attractive an offer as possible to be as competitive as possible.

Jim Marks

People retreat to the sidelines, licking their wounds. The whole process is not as attractive anymore.

Takahide Kiuchi

People's sentiment is changing. They don't mind spending more for attractive goods.

Robert Ray

Offering a BIG Dow contract with a $25 multiplier is very attractive to a broad spectrum of market participants.

James Awad

North Fork Bancorp stock is selling at about 20. We think its fair value would be about 30. But meanwhile, you're getting a 3 percent dividend yield and it's selling at 10 times earnings. Demographically, it's a very attractive area. So, your risk in buying North Fork is that you're a little bit early and the market doesn't care about value stocks for a while. And of course, in a period of rising rates, financial stocks don't do particularly well. But, ... if you buy it and put it away, you'll end up making 50 percent from current levels over a 12 to 18 month period.

Markus Steinbeis

Oil and gas shares are shining at the moment: Rising oil prices are lifting the shares which are also undervalued and offer attractive dividend yields.

Dawn Keezer

Once we enacted statewide tax credit legislation, that has made (Pennsylvania) a lot more attractive destination. We're on the radar now.

Mark Sutton

Despite the expectation for continued if not increased market volatility, we also expect to see returns more in line with historical levels, or approximately seven to ten percent annually, which still makes the markets very attractive for investors.

E. Hurley

A prepaid tuition plan is attractive to a family that just wants to make sure they've paid for the future tuition at a public university and they don't want to worry about which direction the markets are going.

Fritz Elmendorf

Banking was never free because consumers were not getting a market rate on their savings and were paying a lot more for loans.

Richard Peterson

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

Wataru Kasatani

The sale is probably the last one by a major bank, making it positive for the banking stocks overall.

Robert Siciliano

There is a serious disconnect between the issue at hand and the banking industry. I don't think they realize just how much the consumer needs to be informed.

Tyler Cowen

What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.

Ron Mendelson

Navigating the complex legal and tax issues involved in investing and banking offshore requires the services of a professional who is specially trained in offshore investing and banking.

Richard Jerram

Some people are thinking that is a little bit too small to get the banking system back on its feet.

Ping Chew

Most banking systems in the Asia-Pacific region have improved their credit profiles, thanks to stable economic conditions and continuing structural improvements. This is in spite of rising oil prices and interest rates threatening the broader economic recovery.

Rolf Breuer

We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business,

Alberto Giacometti

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Thomas Jefferson

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

Robert Henri

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Seth MacFarlane

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

Daren Causey

I have always been interested in drawing as long as I can remember.

Henry Moore

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Moore

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

John Major

The United Kingdom is South Africa's largest foreign investor and I have every reason to image that that is going to remain the case,

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Walter Salles

So I had this idea for the film but I was shooting Foreign Land and I had written 10 pages on it about what the story should be.

Jeff Jonas

Revenue is a little light. They got hit by foreign exchange.

John Greene

My sense is that at least in this state, Kerry is playing to tie on the foreign policy questions and the so-called values issues, the shorthand for which is God and guns. He comes into Ohio and he talks about being a sportsman, he talks about his military record, he talks about his faith, but he probably can't win on those issues,

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Plautus

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Alain de Botton

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Bill Hybels

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Walter Ekard

We had systems going down, and in some cases, service levels were worse than before.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Etel Adnan

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.