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.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

Robert Sanchez

He killed everyone with kindness at all times.

David Bowens

I think it's an even more macho thing to come out and talk about that kind of stuff.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Jerry Sanders

I think the problem is you can't just kind of reveal things,

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Pat Thomas

I think we performed pretty well. We're kinda tiny but mighty. For every person on this team there is talent, but there just is not a lot of depth.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.

Rufus Wainwright

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Maureen Corrigan

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Jim Elliot

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

Gail Godwin

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Greta Garbo

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?