Famous Quotes & Sayings

Investing in a startup community bank can be a very good investment if you are patient, because the pay off is years away.

James Stewart

Investors will be looking for clues for interest rate cuts. A U.K. rate cut is expected in February, the European Central Bank is most likely to cut rates sometime at the end of the first quarter, start of the second quarter.

Investors should remain on the sidelines and mind our speculative risk rating. Share prices could remain volatile amid bankruptcy speculation until management is more forthcoming with refinancing and restructuring progress.

In the past we might have felt at different points that the concerns about bankruptcy risk were way overplayed.

In the past, we might have felt at different points that the concerns about bankruptcy risk were way overplayed.

In the long run, a ban is inevitable. Where there's been a ban elsewhere in the world, revenues dip then bounce back. In our non-smoking pubs we're getting more women, more families and selling more wine and food.

David Johansen

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

In the past, such a move effectively wiped out the national banking sector in Eastern Europe.

Steve Cook

In the real estate industry, we are concerned about the precedent it sets to let banks be property managers and brokers.

Kofi Annan

In the midst of the road map process, when each party should be making good-faith confidence-building gestures, the barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot, in this regard, be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act,

Interest was high this year because people know the state games are coming here for the next three years. Our closing banquet is also reserved to capacity.

Peter Greene

Interest rate fears are fully discounted now, which is why bonds are up today. That's why stocks are bouncing, why the utilities are rallying, regional bank groups are rallying. But I don't think the market is going to have much more lift here.

Peter Greene

Interest rate fears are fully discounted now, which is why bonds are up today, ... That's why stocks are bouncing, why the utilities are rallying, regional bank groups are rallying. But I don't think the market is going to have much more lift here.

In that environment banks should do well psychologically as well as fundamentally.

In terms of nonverbal communication, by not seeing the full face - whether it's bangs in the eyes of a woman or a man, or a beard - there can be some who perceive the individual is hiding something,

Anne Michaels

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

If you save money, put it in your piggy bank or put it in your savings account, but put it somewhere. I don't care where you put it. But make it tangible.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

If you move one thing, you probably have to move something else and that can be very time consuming. You might spend an hour trying to solve one act's problem. They might share a guitarist with another band playing the same time. And that has to be resolved. And that could take an hour and an hour this time of year is hard to come by.

If you were rating bank CEOs on investing for revenue growth rather than tweaking the existing system, John would rate way up there.

If you want to be a survivor in the global banking market, you need size, and the U.S. is the best place to get it.

In order to get the best bang for your buck, you need to stay on the budget.

In my judgment a bankruptcy certainly is not precluded from being an ultimate scenario. However, I don't see it on the more immediate horizon. If you are a company of this magnitude ... to a certain degree the banks feel it is in their interest give you more rope and keep you going in the hope and expectation that you'll turn it around. I think that's probably what's going to happen here.

Chris Spencer

In a couple of weeks, we are one company, one retail bank in Texas.

Richard Branson

In about three years from now, we'll have the biggest range of products in Australia, bigger than any other bank in Australia, actually.

In a band of only 30, if one person screws up, everybody knows. But as a smaller band, we're able to do things others can't do, like switch equipment and do color guard.

Jeff Greene

If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get fixed-rate 30-year loans, but banks don't want to keep 30-year loans on their books.

It has the band students playing, and there's a part for pots with big wooden spoons to be played.

Claudio Sanchez

I just think it's that we bring a lot to the table. There's the concept idea, which is very interesting and, again, I don't think has been done. Concepts have been done over a standard record, but not like this. And the songwriting is different. There are classic rock influences, and I think they come out more because the band has gotten better.

I just figured they would have more restrictions and limit the number of machines you could have in a store. I didn't think they would ban them all together.

M. C. Gainey

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.