Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yossi Vardi

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

Yanis Varoufakis

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

Anthony Chan

Investors have become completely convinced that we need to see the housing canary buckle under a little bit. If the housing market softens, then investors will view that as the canary in the cave that indicates that central bankers will not have to be as aggressive.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I've never particularly liked bankers.

Marty Heires

These are long-term leases and these banks can stay in our stores for 15 years and in some cases even more. We're committed to community bankers and we're committed to what they bring to our stores and their customers. We're their allies.

Steven Golub

It's broadening out that industry depth that's brought in quality bankers into the place. The stability we've gained from the IPO is good for the people (at Lazard) and good for our clients.

Milton Friedman

No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.

Pankaj Mishra

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

Henry Ford

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Joe Cooper

I thought this program was very eye opening and very informative. It deals with issues that we don't often think about, but that we should.

Ziggy Marley

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Restaurant deals always do really well because the come out at different times of the year. There are very few, they are unique. I have high hopes for this one.

John Barth

really not out of line with other deals that have been done in this industry, but this will stand on its own merits.

Armin Lang

I fully expect some blockbuster deals to hit the tape in the following months. M&A is here to stay.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Willie Brown

A legislator deals with theory; the executive implements. A legislator does not have the responsibility to deliver anything but a theoretical framework for someone else to implement.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.