Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Bove

I think it's clear that the banks that are more tied to the retail sector are going to have a much tougher quarter compared to those with diversified positions. The banks in the retail sector have to deal with interest rate compression, loan volume will be tougher, and they don't have the trading or investment banking that are hot now.

Vincent Farrell

I think the basic fundamental underpinnings are very sound. The banking system's sound, there's no near-term crisis to be had. It doesn't mean the stock market's not overextended - which I believe it is and is due for some sort of setback. But I don't think it's 1987 all over again.

Philipp Meyer

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

Andy Collins

I think that the smaller banks are probably going to have more difficulties in the upcoming six-to-12 months simply because they have relied on loan growth to drive EPS growth to meet consensus expectations. And loan growth is not where you want to be. Bread-and-butter banking is not that great of a business. And you're also the ends in terms of margin pressure. The Fed has raised rates 175 basis points, which usually translates into a much more difficult margin environment. And I think that that is going to hurt the bank below the top 15 in market cap for the near term. I would say the larger-cap banks, once they get over the capital markets issues they're experiencing over the second quarter, should see a little bit more strength.

Tom Finucane

I'd like to think that this is a bottoming out and people are starting to see the value that a lot of these banking stocks offer. I'd like to think there's some bottoming out and strength, but in general the market is nervous.

Andy Penman

Retail banking remains a concern, as does unsecured lending. However, with bid speculation helping the valuation, this should provide support for the share price.

Adam Dener

Retail banking is a distribution game. The models for best practices in distribution are companies like Wal-Mart and the niche retailers.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Wataru Kasatani

Investors already learned about the recovery in Japan's banking industry and the Mizuho sale gives them another investment opportunity.

Paul Merrick

I suspect that there is a significant buyer out there, probably a central bank.

Shawn Amos

I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce.

Brian Clifford

I think it's a great time to find buying opportunities in names that you can revisit, ... It's a lot easier to buy stocks as they're coming towards you rather than running away from you. It's a good time to sharpen your pencil and go after some of these names that have kind of run away on valuation.

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

H. Hunt

I think it is rather unfortunate that motorists filled up in panic buying when they will find it 4p cheaper now.

Tiffani Bruce

It can cost about as much as a new printer to buy a set of new cartridges.

Mike Doyle

Having a jackpot in excess of $200 million makes it a very exciting time to be in California. The draw is Friday night but buy your tickets early unless you enjoy standing in line with your neighbors.

Russell Hall

Having a good allocation only protects you if you're willing to rebalance periodically so you're selling high and buying low.

Simon Spurr

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Mike May

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

Robert Novak

Aha! We were right: They have been hiding the real goods on us?

John Wilson

You could see he still had some goods left. I hope I can still do that when I'm his age.

Joseph Tan

It should not be introduced at high levels, where it will shock the economy. Instead, the GST should be gradually eased in and the list of taxable goods expanded over time.

Bryan Whitman

It's our practice to pay our bills, ... goods and services previously rendered.

Sir Jones

They represent a growing market for value-added goods that we can produce and deliver.

Fred Williams

A number of pawn shops and sporting goods stores were hit,

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.