Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Baker

He was a banker's banker. He saw banking not just as a business and a profession but as a way to give back.

Vance Law

Going by the game stats we give up another big inning. Walks and timely hitting by them pretty well spelled doom for us. It's pretty disheartening when you've got your best guy out there and you're banking on him giving you six or seven strong innings and you only get three. We just feel like he was forced out of the game early with walks. I won't say with control, I'll say with walks.

Koichiro Suzuki

I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor in Japan's economic recovery they are buying the most liquid Japanese stocks -- banks.

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.

David Thwaites

I thought we would have been lower -- maybe the U.S. will follow Europe higher. I don't think there's a fundamental reason for it, other than what's going on in the banking sector.

Edward Gramlich

I think that Greenspan does have a very good intuitive sense of the economy, and the hardest thing with central banking is dealing with turning points,

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.

Mark Prince

We're proud of our heritage in West Virginia, and we're proud to move to a brand that has a long-standing place in our country's banking history. Through expanded products and services, our combined company will make banking even more convenient and efficient for Chase customers in our region.

George Bernard Shaw

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,

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.

H. Hunt

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

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.

Joe Barton

There are so many cars on the market that get 30 miles per gallon, and folks aren't buying them,

Richard Babson

What you are seeing now is the buying of individual companies in the Dow for value. It is less a question of tech versus financial stocks, and more a question of looking at specific companies.

Scott Davis

had become quite difficult to predict this year's holiday buying and shipping season and the prospects for any rapid economic turnaround.

Andes Cheng

Having more big quality state companies is definitely good for the Chinese stock market because investors would be more interested in buying stocks. Capital is not a problem in China. The problem is that there aren't enough good investment opportunities.

Emanuel Balarie

Going forward, inflationary concerns will only gain steam, the U.S. dollar will continue its downward decline and geopolitical tensions will continue to draw safe-haven buying from around the globe.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Alan Johnson

Having the Blazers in Portland is important to the whole region and the state. The economic impact the Blazers organization has is very significant. And when you think about their payroll and what taxes they pay locally, it's a huge factor.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

John Hill

Gold prices have been resurgent, following oil, inflation data, and fretting over global economic imbalances.

Mitsushige Akino

Good economic reports provided us a relief and I expect stocks will rebound from yesterday's losses.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Paul Posluszny

He was a huge factor in my decision, because I knew I wanted to come and play for a great man like him.

Alan Greenspan

has got to be a factor in determining the propensity of people to spend money.

Keith Greene

There are so many other factors we have to address. Homophobia is something we have to address.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

Thomas Russo

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Napoleon Bonaparte

International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents

Tim Maluga

I generally don't respond to the e-mails I get from foreign players. They're looking for a full-ride and we just don't have that to often. I think that picking foreign players is a lazy way of recruiting.

Phil Klay

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Nick Angilletta

Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

Hiroshi Sato

Investors are just taking shelter in those natural resources issues.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Leslie Alexander

If there are Japanese beetles on the raspberries, we will pick them off by hand.

Anthony Crescenzi

And it was just more robotic statements about the Japanese yen.

Hiroaki Takai

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

Kingston Lin

The U.S. and Japanese markets are down, so people want to wait until Monday when the futures settle.

Peter Bjarkman

They'll be out there tomorrow. They have a killer instinct. They know how to play in these tournaments. When it comes down to one game, they're the toughest team in the world to beat. It doesn't mean they're going to win. The Japanese team's the same way. But they play a similar style of baseball. It ought to be a really interesting game.

Jim Walsh

It's going to make the Japanese nervous. And it's going to put pressure on the Japanese prime minister.

Paresh Upadhyaya

The Japanese would like to see a weaker yen. They thought it strengthened too much unilaterally.

Takafumi Horie

The Japanese stock market is like a lamb or rabbit in a pack of wolves. It is very dangerous. Unless someone acts, things don't get corrected.

Samuel Wilson

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

Zygmunt Bauman

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Marcel Proust

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

Joseph Joubert

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Malachy McCourt

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

William Shakespeare

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

Alfred McEwen

Any place where there's liquid water, there's life.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Richard Dawkins

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

Richard Dawkins

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.

Richard Whately

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Tyler Florence

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

Wayne Dyer

During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

Virginia Satir

I am me and I am okay.

Robin Quivers

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Will Rogers

One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.

Will Rogers

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

Walter Scott

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

William Julius Wilson

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

Winston Churchill

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,