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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

Denis Waitley

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

Bob Toth

We are pleased that yet another independent source has recognized the tremendous value of our tires. Goodyear's product development efforts have focused on an application of relevant technology - advancements that are technologically innovative, but which also offer discernable benefits to those who drive on our tires.

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Amy Jo Martin

We don't like what we don't know or understand. Parents don't like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don't fully understand the benefits and dangers.

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Tom Eid

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

Nancy Kaylor

We're starting to see more employers introduce flexibility into their workplace. The workplace is starting to look a little different. Businesses are finding they need to do it to retain the workers they have.

Brent Hayes

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

Ken Stein

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

Michael Alter

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Jim Sexton

We're making a b-to-b play out of a very popular consumer brand.

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Todd Holmdahl

With three contract manufacturers on board, we're poised to have the flexibility and efficiencies we need to keep up with the consumer demand.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

Ian Scott

We're still seeing some rotation into more cyclical stocks ... such as consumer products makers, and industrials, ... We quite like oil stocks as well.

Kurt Barnard

We're seeing the consumer back at the discretionary counters and that is good news for the entire industry.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Douglas Elliott

We've been able to hold the line on electricity prices for a long time. Unfortunately, the costs we incur to serve customers have continued to rise over the years.

John Boyega

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

E. O. Wilson

We're going to see continued volatility in the near term -- the oil market is sending conflicting signals.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.

Scott Smith

We want to stay away from penalties and turnovers and not give up big plays on defense. It's going to come down to execution and effort.

David Orton

We are pleased with our overall progress in the quarter and remain intensely focused on technology leadership and operational execution.

Tim Parmeter

When we do what we're supposed to do, and we have execution, we're going to be hard to stop.

Pam Borton

It's not missing shots or lack of execution.

Robert Niblock

It's obviously a reflection of the programs we have in place and the improvement in our in-store execution -- but don't underestimate the impact of the unseasonably mild weather we had in the fourth quarter.

Brian Gruber

It's a gutsy play, but it's all about execution.

Jeff Tarter

A true remote execution has a tiny footprint and won't need much of a system.

Tracey Kelusky

Our execution was terrible. If our power-play capitalizes on half our chances, we're in a one-goal game.

Mark Turgeon

Our execution was good. We worked really hard this week. Not knowing who you were going to play really helped us because we worked on us, and I think it showed today in our execution.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Bob Trisolini

It's one of the most lavish shows I've worked on other than shows in New York and on Broadway. There is quite an investment in production values.

Rick Baker

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

Simon Davies

This is to do with stabilizing trust in trade and investment and has nothing to do with privacy protection.

Steve Swasey

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Kenneth Roth

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

Jan Egeland

North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world.

Vasco Moreno

After what we've seen from the U.S. investment banks, expectations are pretty high. If they don't produce the results, then that could be a problem.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

Orlando Cabrera

They took the momentum and then we couldn't get it back.

Stuart Smith

They are predicting that profit will be up a bit, whereas the momentum previously was quite strong over several years.

Drew Miller

You don't want to have the momentum and give it back to them 10 seconds later. We put ourselves in position to win, but just didn't get it done.

Richie Meade

There were a lot of fouls in the second quarter and that kind of took our momentum away.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Stuart Rose

This is an encouraging performance, but there remains much to be done,

Geoff Peterson

It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.

Peter Hitchens

It's a better performance from refining and marketing.

Liza Minnelli

It was done in one night. It was one performance only. That was it. That was our shot.

Steve Davies

It was a standout performance if I ever saw one.

Richard Repetto

A strong quarter pretty much any way you slice it.

Ashley Tuiasosopo

It's the same thing every time we play. We like to think the third quarter is ours.

Bob Wilson

I told the team not to worry about Dewitt's shot. We were still up by two and we still had one more quarter to play.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Anthony Chan

It's a wake-up call. One quarter does not make a trend, but we have to be more on our guard.

Craig Barrett

As expected, second quarter revenue reflected a seasonal slowdown,

Derek Brown

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,

Charlie Trotter

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

David Wyss

The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.

Irv DeGraw

With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

M. Wolfe

They got that free-throw rebound that they got back and put back in. That was huge.

Dawn Chriss

That's what we do. We play defense, get the steal or the rebound and we're gone. I think it complements us.

Derrick Estelle

Earl does what Earl does. Score, rebound and intimidate.

Matt Gibson

We had a team that could have competed in the championship game. But we didn't rebound well enough.

Chucky Atkins

We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series.

Ben Braun

We just need to stick to our principles. As long as we rebound and play defense, we'll be alright.

Elayne Boosler

My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Dickens

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Charles Dickens

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....

Charles Dickens

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,

Carol Kennedy

We routinely look at any unusual trading activity.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Bill Gross

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Arabian Proverb

A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.