Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Dev Hynes

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

Vladimir Potanin

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Bill Vaughan

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

Donald Powell

The American public knows that the banking sector has had record profits for the last four years. It's an opportunity to be generous.

Liu Mingkang

We have already made big progress in banking reforms.

Art Hogan

With the financials, that entire space has been tarnished by a confidence crisis. Also, on a more fundamental level rather than a psychological level, there's no investment banking business going on right now. The concerns remain about the banks' exposure to bankrupt telecoms WorldCom and Global Crossing,

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.

Ed Perkins

The 3 percent charge has been coming into effect over the past year, but a lot of smaller banks and credit unions only charge the 1 percent, and American Express is still at 2 percent.

Tang Xu

That would increase unemployment and hurt our economy, and commercial banks could also face a difficult operating environment.

Katsuhiko Kodama

That would be happening here as high-techs and banks were sold heavily in the past few days.

Vincent Brennan

We can see what's going on in the market because we have all these other banks we're negotiating for.

Don Smith

We have thousands and thousands of banks and we have to consolidate to get more efficient.

Burton Greenwald

You are going to see a flood of deals from insurance companies and banks that started proprietary fund families and have been unable to successfully distribute them through their captive sales organizations.

Tony Pina

We came out boom, boom, boom and scored three runs real quick. For them to respond that way knowing they weren't playing real well, that's what good teams do.

Paul Eenhoorn

There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

Philip Hammond

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

Steven Wieting

We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in consumer spending.

Matt Thornhill

Those cars have boomer sensibilities in how they're designed.

Laisenia Qarase

We are in the midst of the greatest investment boom Fiji has ever seen.

Mike Russell

We're booming right now. The warm temperature is bringing them on, so there's lots of strawberries out there.

Paul Fassinger

We're not really talking about boom times by the bay. We're talking slow to moderate growth, but in the normal range of things.

John Galbraith

On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.

Isaac Brock

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

Zhang Li

The overall relationship is strong, but trade and economic ties have lagged behind, especially compared to China-India trade.

Brian Harvey

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

Valentina Tereshkova

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Shun Totani

The 10-year notes are reasonable to get in at these yield levels compared with a month ago.

Fabio Capello

We have an extremely competitive roster in terms of quality and quantity. And compared to last year we know each other better and have all been together from the first day of training camp.

Mark Ronson

My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.

Don Murray

We were hit with this flood a year ago as a result of Hurricane Ivan and compared to what those folks went through we had nothing, of course we were devastated at the time, but compared to them, we just had nothing.

Marc Freedman

Utilizing a large-cap value fund, or a small-cap international fund, allows you to better measure your fund's performance compared with its peers,

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Roger Altman

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Arthur Levitt

The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.

Bill Grant

That would be great. The more economic development you have, the better it is for the region.

Rainer Guntermann

We have a more mixed picture (and) that would have made some people rethink economic prospects maybe towards the end of the year.

Paul Hubbert

We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve.

Mike Schussler

We know that with a lot of the strikes, if they last only a day or three, we can make up that lost production. If it lasts a week or longer we make up only some of that production. That's when it starts having economic consequences.

Mark Whitney

With the expansion and growth of our vital programs and services, we felt our web site needs to do more to market and promote these initiatives in the communities we serve.

Steve Kelly

While 9/11 had a negative impact, the industry is now rebounding very well with lots of orders and expansion of products.

Mo Ibrahim

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Jim Boeheim

I don't want a doubling-type thing. I think there should be some teams added. I'm not looking at it like one or two. I'm not looking at 20 either. I think there should be an expansion of the tournament. Whatever seems to fit.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Haim Saban

guide the ongoing strategic expansion of this company, which will have a unique position in Europe.

David May

If this range expansion continues, we're probably going to have more moose than in pre-Colonial times.

Sherry Cooper

Worry not, the longest expansion in American history still has legs.

Brian Schmidt

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Rex Wilmouth

We're all trying to come together to make it work for the industry and for the consumer.

Gerald Brown

With all the industry we've lost, this will be a shot in the arm.

Jake Brace

We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Yo-Yo Ma

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Peter Singer

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

Peter Jackson

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Danny Ferry

Most likely we'll have two second-round picks next year.

Kevin McCarthy

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

Jerry Berman

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

Ronnie Arnold

We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.

David Baltimore

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

Joel Fox

We re-use 85 to 90 percent of it.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Bob Kelly

You can get 170 percent more Terminal Services users on a single server with Windows 2003 Server x64 than you can with 32-bit Windows.

Andrew Cuomo

You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.

Beth Young

I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I think we try to take that many shots sometimes.

James Bowden

Usually, you ride and then you party. Now, you just party.

David Hayes

We haven't sorted out just who will ride which one.

Johan Bruyneel

We haven't signed anybody. We're full. We have 27 riders and we're going to keep it that way.

Gary Lewis

Most of the riders up there are locals,

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Kunda Dixit

He really wants to ride it out. It may take some time (for him to go).

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Brea Grant

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Bonnie Tyler

It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird.

Barry McCaffrey

The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.

Ross Mathews

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Philip Treacy

You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'