Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Watson

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Fritz Elmendorf

The larger banks are seeing a lot of market share in this area, but the larger credit unions and the ones being run by ex-bankers are setting up arrangements where a non-member can finance a car right at the dealership just by signing up to be a member.

Dean Foster

The first quarter was just awful, but then Tommy (Kurth) banks in the 3 and we have the lead after the first quarter. I kept looking up thinking (the Cavemen) were up seven or eight points, but then, heck, we tied it and then took the lead.

Fritz Elmendorf

Small banks come out with an edge on pricing, but what is not measured is the convenience factor.

Zhou Xiaochuan

The listing of the four big state-owned commercial banks is up to them. The reform on the Agriculture Bank of China is also underway and will not be rushed.

Robert Sinche

The markets are coming to grips with the expectation that Japan and other central banks will start raising rates. As the process unfolds, you uncover certain fault lines -- and they usually aren't where you'd expect them. Maybe Iceland was the first casualty.

Kevin Callahan

A lot of the banks have been able to grow their deposits very nicely. That was partly due to all of us being too scared to put our money in the stock market, or the bond market for that matter.

Roger Caruba

They (the Legislature) robbed all the little piggy banks of all the schools to make it look like they were delivering tax relief. All districts need surplus, like every business or household.

Victor Lazarovici

This may be the realization after a long period of time that gold is no longer the bedrock of the world's financial system. And if it's no longer required as a reserve currency, then it makes sense for central banks to reduce their holdings of gold and convert to more profitable investments.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Geoff Kendrick

The risks are now skewed to the upside (on U.S. interest rates). 4.75 may be a done deal (in March) and depending on how the data goes, 5 percent may become a done deal as well.

Walter Moloney

There's no data on that. Personally, I don't think that it would negatively impact sales.

Paula Wagner

What can data tell us and teach us to reach all students? ... That is the most valuable part of the data.

Craig Mundie

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Amanda Hoffman

We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.

Steve Jobs

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

Tim O'Reilly

Data is the next Intel Inside.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Kathleen Farrell

Due to the success of the yard sale we held on Sept. 10 at which $1,600 was raised, ... we are having another sale this weekend, Sept. 24 and 25, rain or shine.

Linda Lewis

Due to the shear number of students, we need the position to be able to provide a quality program for our students,

Carlos Hokama

Due to these two factors, the market is in waiting mode.

Ed Hatch

Due to them, the Warner Bros. studio has been one of the most consistent, steady and stable studios of in the last decade.

Harry Pearce

Due to rapid consolidation in the media and telecommunications industries, GM is now considering alternative strategic transactions involving Hughes and other participants in those industries, ... Any such transaction might involve the separation of Hughes from General Motors.

Rick Bailey

Due to personnel rules and the ongoing investigation, no further information is available.

Tom Kelley

Due to illness, injuries and SAT (testing), we only sent seven kids.

Hamish Dodds

Due to developments here it seems a natural move.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

John Banks

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Kaoru Yosano

Long-term interest rate levels reflect real economic growth, inflationary expectations and risk premium, and it may be possible to minimize the risk premium (component) through government policy.

William Ramsay

I think Russia has made a serious mistake. It has demonstrated its willingness to use its gas as a political and economic tool.

Danny Shafer

We're a generation away from those guys, and we have a different economic scale to live up to. Our generation is lucky if we have jobs that we like and people that we can relate to.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Masayuki Senda

There is a possibility the Fed may raise rates three more times to 4.5 percent before pausing, to keep inflation under control.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Eric Barden

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Pat Ryan

But, as usual, our offense fed off our defense, and we were able to pull away late.

Edward Hyman

My guess is the Fed tightens but, as you know, it's a toss-up ... it's a 50-50 shot,

Mike Boss

Now the odds are 85 percent that the Fed will move again.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Jerry Bernstein

We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.

John McNamara

As it looks right now, we're going to be here a long time.

Jim Bishop

At 19, everything looks possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Ingrid Reed

At this point, those numbers look good. It looks like New Jersey.

Maurice Carroll

At the start, it looks like a Bloomberg blowout, ... It's still early.

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Brian Rose

We don't think the BOJ will raise rates at all this year.

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Shawn Miller

He started to raise it and we all ran. We scattered. It was panic.

David Rosen

I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money.

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Annie Proulx

I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.

Andrei Lankov

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Anais Nin

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Marilynne Robinson

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

Christian Nestell Bovee

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Grenville Kleiser

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Gerard Manley Hopkins

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

J. M. Coetzee

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

B. C. Forbes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Otto von Bismarck

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.