Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Yoji Takeda

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Luis Gutierrez

Our bill ensures that national banks will be bound by state consumer protection laws, including predatory mortgage lending statutes.

Chris Hoofnagle

Retailers and banks are trying to pass a law that's much weaker.

Boris Schlossberg

Reserve diversification by central banks has been a key driver of dollar weakness this year.

Zeng Jun

Remember, interest paid to banks only comes back to you in the form of a billing receipt. Nothing else...

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Richard Hunter

If you imagine all the speculation we've had in past months with banks, then not one is off the possible-target field. All banks are put into that play.

Jeffrey Sachs

If the whole world went into recession, all the major central banks could cut interest rates and expand the money supply.

George Hamlin

It could be a way to signal the market that things are getting serious. I'd like to think they'd done better planning in terms of cash flow and the airline's operations. This would be a relatively new and troubling development.

Phil Gartside

There is a lack of quality around and we were not going to make signings for the sake of it. It was not just about cash availability.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Tim Evans

Really, it's just a rush to cash in profits on what was really a spectacular move higher.

Jose Vistan

Investors may start to cash in once first-quarter results start coming out.

Peter Boockvar

Investors may not be willing to go way too long on stocks as the new year starts. At the same time, there are so many hedge funds in this market that they may be selling some stocks to cash in gains after November's rally.

Aryeh Bourkoff

Investors have had low expectations for NTL and the company was able to meet these expectations for the first time in a while. Talking about the dividend and returning cash to shareholders was new and it's appropriate for a company with strong free cash flow.

Yutaka Miura

Investors sell futures contracts speculating about a further fall in the cash market in the afternoon, so by the time the cash market opens, investors turn bearish -- it's a vicious cycle.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Kevin Boyd

Katie is a creative, technical player who can impact a game from any position. She is easily one of the top players coming out this year.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Luis Fernandez

Juan Miguel is coming as soon as he receives the guarantee from the Justice Department and the INS that he's going to receive the custody of his boy,

David Leibowitz

I suspect that software is going to drive this generation of products much as it drove the prior generation. Nintendo has proven itself a master of coming up with software that has play value.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Tony Russa

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

Larry Rothschild

He knows that he does sides in between and the days he does them. I'll talk to him in the next day or two but the scheduling, as far as pitching, is not in our hands.

Karen Braswell

He lasted about two days and then we had to make that signature decision.

Dani Shapiro

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

James Rubin

What we've seen in the last three days is how emotional those small pieces of real estate can be for the Palestinians and Israelis.

Robert Wisner

Here in Iowa, there were a lot of nervous days during the summer due to hotter weather than in earlier years.

Christian Vieri

He's a good kid. We've been together for 20 days and have had a good time together,

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.

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.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Kenichi Azuma

Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.

Jim Rink

In Michigan, we only have one refinery. The other two factors influencing our prices are that there is a lot of speculation taking place on the commodities market and that there are a number of refineries that are having to shut down temporarily to switch their production to the summer-grade gasoline blends.

Richard Church

The consumer's been out in force for several months, ... all of these factors have contributed to very robust sales at retail.

Donald Harris

It's so different this year, and a lot of factors are contributing to it.

James Reed

There were quite a few factors that influenced me, but mostly it was the opportunity to do something unique and different.

Randy Bly

It's a combination of factors hitting all at once.

Christa Carone

As other factors are implemented it will start to have an impact in overall employment.

Rick Oliver

These factors subvert the old social norms for starting a business.

Lisa Ling

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Kris Benson

He's going to make a big impact on all of us.

Felipe Alou

It could be too late but an impact he'll make. It may not be visible big time, but it will be (impacting).

Bob Lohn

I think the practical impact should be quite small,

John Beck

To get a player of his caliber, they said they thought they were very blessed. They said he has the potential to be an impact player very soon.

Tony Tan

He has left an impact not only on the United States but on the whole world.

Arne Huse

I think 3.0 will have a serious impact on the world of CRM.

Sergio Aguayo

I think all of us were taken by surprise by the size and impact of the marches.

Rick Short

I realize the opportunities are probably going to be limited, so I've got to make an impact when I can. When you have a season like that I think everyone has confidence. They know I can hit.

David Borden

His invention is ubiquitous and has had as much if not more impact than the invention of the piano. He's probably one of the most important musical instrument makers in history.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Fletcher Smith

He was nowhere near the scene of the incident. But unfortunately the vehicle is registered under his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

Scott Cross

It's an opportunity. We're going to have to play a near perfect game. But it can happen. You never know. We're going to have to shoot real well because they're going to rebound.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Lance Penny

It really started to become a problem near Edson about 10 years ago.

John Challenger

It's accelerating right now. I don't think we're near the end of it,

Dottie Dalton

People can think anything they want. We are nonviolent, we are non-confronting, we don't even want to go near them.

Joe Ismail

Any corrective phase that will come in the near term could be a shallow one.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Leif Garrett

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Karl Rove

Negative politics have always been around.

Kapil Dev

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Joel Osteen

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Art Hogan

This is more of a technically-driven rally. If the news is positive for the rest of the week, we should trend higher, but not enough to set any new record highs.

Orrin Hatch

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

Anthony Crescenzi

Again, another whipsaw day, ... What big news did we get today? ... Nothing.

Mike Holmgren

The news is good, thank God. We were all saying prayers for him.

Michael Casserly

The news here for us is the progress, the trend line, the strong upward tilt of the numbers.

Michael Sheldon

The news from Cisco was disappointing for tech investors,

Jim Bianco

The news doesn't come much better than this.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Jon Corzine

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

Louis Nizer

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

John Christopher

Some people are oil and water.

John Bruton

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Sean Durkin

The third quarter killed us. In the end, it was a little too much for us to overcome.

Aryeh Bourkoff

This is going to be the weakest quarter of the year for the company.

David Trone

This is the first quarter in a long time where you will see year-over-year comparisons that are negative. And we'll probably see results for most of the quarters in 2005 being down on a year-over-year basis.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Jonathan Miller

Speaking for me, it's just another one of those reporting requirements. It's not that big of a deal.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Marc Ostrofsky

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

John Carmack

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well...

James Taylor

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

William Shakespeare

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all

Lindy Ruff

He thought he could finish. But when I watched the first one with him not wanting to go down, I could tell he was favoring it.

Jamie Bermel

He's still in the mix. He's still wanting to play. We'll have another qualifying when we get back from New Mexico, and we'll see what happens.

Ricky Davis

I didn't have jitters. I was about as comfortable as you can be. I've been wanting to play here for a long time.

Rachel Campbell

Some of them aren't out yet and they've been wanting those.

Jodi Collins

I think like everyone, we've been wanting to do something, and now we are.

Ron Moore

We're wanting to do an upscale natural-habitat project.

Hill Harper

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'