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.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I would say that as of today the chance of a second round is fairly high.

Floyd Ciruli

I would say that the 7th right now is clearly the nation's most competitive seat, with the Democrats having a clear chance to win it.

Alan Trammel

Just to even say there's a possibility, wow. But I'd have to say chances are we're going to have to make an adjustment.

Jeb Bush

Knowing what we know now, I think it would be inappropriate to sit back and say something is going to happen and it will all work out,

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $US805 million ($A1.08 billion) is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $805 million is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Erik Zabel

I actually have no idea about what can happen on Sunday,

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Salman Rushdie

optimism is a disease

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Sarah Dessen

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

John Irving

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

John Hench

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

John F. Kerry

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

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.

Michael Holland

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