Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's common in a bankruptcy to have these charges -- you're cleaning house.

It's clear that the Delphi bankruptcy really precipitated a sense of urgency,

It's a matter of time before GM files for bankruptcy if these issues aren't addressed.

It's a monumental trading error, but fortunately this is a large bank with deep reserves.

It leaves open the door for the Reserve Bank to raise official interest rates sooner rather than later.

It'll be primarily bank stabilization and culvert emplacements in preparation for major work on the road. We have an estimate to fix three-eighths of a mile that would cost $450,000. Of course, the town doesn't have $450,000.

It was a classic case of when there's a lot of noise, the best thing a central bank can do is nothing.

It's tough for the local banks to lend for longer than five years.

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

Richard Greenberg

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

Is this the thin end of the wedge in terms of bank profitability? There will be more to come.

Sean Pertwee

I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points.

Bethany McLean

It was actually in retrospect a pretty meek story. It didn't say that the company is a fraud and going to go bankrupt in nine months. In fact, if you had said to me at the time that Enron is going to go under, I'd have said, 'Are you kidding?' It just didn't quite make sense. In retrospect I fault myself for not questioning it more than I did.

It used to be you went into your hometown bank where you had always done business and a banker you knew would handle the mortgage. It was all local. Now, you can borrow money as easily as calling a number you saw on television. One loan and then another loan - it all starts to pile up.

It will reduce the chance of the Reserve Bank moving at the May meeting.

They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism,

The urgency to appoint a true deflation fighter at the Bank of Japan is not going to disappear with this report.

They are going to tighten one last time in April. Risk on the economic growth is on the downside. This doesn't provide great reason for the bank to go further.

They want to steal your identity so that they can commit fraud or rob your bank account, or charge purchases on your credit card information.

They want to fine the union into bankruptcy and put our leaders in jail.

They walk in, look at the specials and they just keep walking. A lot of people think we're the customer service counter. We're always trying to bring awareness, letting people know that we're here and open seven days a week. It's an excellent convenience, you can do your grocery shopping and do your banking all at the same time.

They'll up the ante because they now have the bankruptcy judge behind them.

They'll say the bank requires you to get credit life insurance. They'll tell you the bank requires you to get this extended warranty.

They have to find other ways to make money in Japan. Private banking was their best business, but they can't do that anymore.

Mark Zuckerberg

There's two things you can do, and I don't think either one will happen to help Indiana out of this situation. First is get medical insurance for everyone. Second is banks and lenders just need to be more responsible about who they give credit cards to.

It seems a nailed-on certainty that the Bank of England will hold interest rates steady on Thursday,

It's important to note that if you stripped out investment banking activities, our diluted earnings per share were up 21 percent for the full year of 2005 and 28 percent for the fourth quarter of 2004.

I've got a bit of fire in the belly for this meeting. I'm going to be out for a while so I need to get some money in the bank and drag it back home.

Tom Price

I've gotten a better response since the bankruptcy filings.

Simon Cowell

No, I probably owed the bank about a million dollars then, yeah.

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

No matter when the BOJ scraps quantitative easing, the move should be considered positive because that shows the central bank sees Japan's economy as solid enough to bear that.

Ronald Reagan

Not everybody aspires to be a bank president or a nuclear scientist, but everybody wants to do something with one's life that will give him pride and a sense of accomplishment.