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.

James Bryce

Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.

Archibald Hill

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Mary Montagu

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Samuel Johnson

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Libby Ludlow

I really have no idea why they are all crashing. There are just lots of rolls. There's never a dull moment, which makes it more challenging.

William Shakespeare

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Bonita Favre

There was never, ever a dull moment around here, ... For a while there at the emergency room, they'd go, 'I know. It's a Favre again.'

Mike Fontenot

We plan on networking at these shows as much as possible. People can't hear our music if we're not out there playing it. Plus, we'd like to think we have surprises waiting... never a dull moment with us.

Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Terri Johnson

Kirby is playing really well for us. We expected him to play at this level, he just got a late start with football. That three at the end of the third quarter was huge.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Dawn Staley

GW did have a run in them, and we expected that. We were up by eight, and then a minute and a half later, it was gone.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

Douglas Muzzio

His withdrawal from the race was totally typical of the campaign. He was outside the box. Nobody expected this.

Mike Piazza

I think it's important for the teams that aren't expected to be competitive to be competitive for the good of the sport. For players of Italian descent, it's a small sort of way of thanking Italy for our forefathers and mothers.

Jaret Wright

I think we expected it to be a little tighter today than it was last night. That's usually what happens, stuff tightens up overnight. But that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Amy Cuddy

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

Marc Freedman

This investment is generally recommended for higher-income tax brackets,

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Keith Morris

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Mike Gold

I've been pleasantly surprised by the credibility, seriousness, and capabilities shown by these entities.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Cassandra Clare

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

Al Groh

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Horace

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

John Fischer

There's nothing really going on right now. I don't really understand these jumps. It surprises me the way it's been fluctuating.

Frank Morgan

Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.

Jeff Graff

I don't think there's going to be a lot of surprises in the quarter.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

Chris Walker

We don't play a very pretty game. It's ugly, and I think that surprises a lot of people.

Chris Walker

We don't play a real pretty game. It's ugly, and that's the way we like it. It surprises a lot of people.