Famous Quotes & Sayings

It would be difficult to sell it with their most recent period, which is a horrible result. Goldman Sachs is probably saying that this would be a tough story to tell on the road when you have a declining business, when the other investment banks are posting record numbers.

It would seem the bank now realizes that we are falling into a bit of a deep hole.

It was all grassroots, people's piggy banks and everything else.

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

Wayne LaPierre

The sheer blizzard of litigation is destroying the American firearms industry, ... the strategy is to bury the American firearms industry in litigation and bankrupt it.

The sticking point for the Reserve Bank is still inflation. It is likely to be September before the bank is comfortable that pressures have dissipated enough.

Tom McCarthy

The state's position is that the bankruptcy filings in both cases were frivolous and for the sole purpose of delaying the eviction.

The statement indicates the central bank is putting a cap on its rate-hike cycle. There is a logical response for the Canadian dollar to weaken.

I see no rush to beat the latest bankruptcy law deadline.

I see no further central bank tightening this year.

I share your commitment to conducting a thorough investigation of what, until recently, was the largest bankruptcy filing in our nation's history, ... In light of recent news reports and testimony at this week's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on the role of financial institutions in the collapse of Enron Corporation, I believe these two individuals could provide the committee with information critical to our investigation.

Robert Blake

It would mean a lot to me if you would sign it and get my lawyers off my back, ... All it says is you're not going to open any illegal bank accounts.

I used to work in recoveries for bankruptcy cases: searching and locating missing assets. Having grown up around those things, I find them very interesting.

The zoning board did its job. We heard from all the parties and there were a lot of residents worried about it. After careful consideration, the board concluded that this was not an appropriate location for a stand-alone bank and it would not be beneficial to the borough of Westwood.

Things were very quiet. The market was (pushed) up by the joint venture between Fuji Bank and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. That was all it needed.

They are another example of a company that started out in a relatively stronger financial position than their peers, and they felt they were in better position to survive a shakeout. They didn't pursue cost-cutting as aggressively as they would have if they were heading toward bankruptcy early in the (industry's) downturn.

Eliot Spitzer

The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

Elizabeth Warren

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

The World Bank will focus on developing Gaza Strip potential economy as well as on the bilateral economic relationship between Israel and the Palestinians,

Dambisa Moyo

The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

This is a really stunning retreat in retail sales. It reinforces our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic about consumer spending.

This is exactly what the Reserve Bank wants because increased investment reduces inflationary pressure and will help build capacity.

This is good for the company. It provides for future funding and it gets us out of bankruptcy sooner than we anticipated. It will be a seamless transition.

This is going to be a very, very long and painful process. In the next five years, all the mainline carriers will have been in bankruptcy at least once.

This is going to be a very, very long and painful process, ... In the next five years, all the mainline carriers will have been in bankruptcy at least once.

This is a supportive report for Bank of Canada's 'modest' rate hike plans -- good growth, but lower imported costs.

This is the first signal that the central bank is trying to tighten monetary policy.

This is not a juvenile walking into a bank and robbing it. It's frequently kid-on-kid crime.

This is still a pretty healthy report overall that suggests that the service sector has started 2006 relatively strongly. The report does little to change perceptions that the Bank of England will keep interest rates unchanged next week, and very probably for some time to come after then.

This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the February Inflation Report.

This isn't the kind of industry where half the companies are going to go bankrupt in a recession. They're in good shape to weather a downturn.

This is the closest vote I can remember. It was an uncharacteristically high turnout reflecting concern about the issue and the bankruptcy process.

Jeff Bezos

This is the cheapest and easiest way to have an Internet (sales) strategy. This solves all the problems. We charge the customer's credit card and deposit the money directly into your bank account.