Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the reasons you have something like this is to take some risks. Why do you have a multilateral development bank that is not going to take risk?

One of the questions the Commission is looking into is the fees that the banks must pay each other for carrying those credit card payments, and there we expect a decision before the end of the year.

Eric Mangini

I was going to be an investment banker and got involved with a semipro team there just on a whim. It changed my life. I found out I loved football.

I wish we could bank some of these runs for the next day.

I would expect there are students out there who rationalize that they cheated out of boredom with the class. That's like justifying a bank robbery, you can't.

Ruben Studdard

I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.

If we don't have the CAP program, then I'm going to the bankruptcy court. It would be the dissolution of the agency.

If they want peace, they must know that what is happening in the Gaza Strip must happen in the West Bank and east Jerusalem,

She's all-American. I think people saw, bank shots, post-ups, she does it all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years

Some banks use CDs as a loss leader to get their hooks in you." ()

Some central bankers perhaps are not seeing growth as strong as the survey data suggest.

Signs of slowing growth and wages moving sideways rather than picking up, and of course the currency showing some signs of life, suggest that the Reserve Bank has probably administered enough monetary medicine for the time being.

Since they are nonperforming assets, banks generally want to get them off their books as quickly as possible.

Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.

I live over two miles away from the bank and I am in poor health to be able to walk that distance, it is totally out of the question.

I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

I feel very comfortable with where we are with the Hudson United conversion that we could look at banks right now.

Alan Greenspan

I find it difficult to believe, for example, that the crises that arose in Thailand and Korea would have been nearly so virulent had their central banks published data prior to the crises on net reserves instead of the not very informative gross reserve positions only,

I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.

I can't say enough about how thrilled we are with the new partnership being formed by Peoples Bank and the Ski to Sea Race. We look forward to working with Peoples Bank to make Whatcom County's premier event bigger and better than ever.

Jim Hightower

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Because banks were having trouble deciding what was reasonable, we have gravitated toward 1 percent of the principal. This is not a hard and fast rule, and banks may establish other payment amounts.

Chairman Greenspan's lengthy letter is about the broader issue of regulation of Industrial Loan Corporations. We look forward to the (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) public hearing on our application to operate an industrial bank in Utah.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Nelson George

By battling Eminem, they end up battling the whole family he's down with - 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Lloyd Banks - the biggest people in the game,

Rick Steves

Buy travelers checks in U.S. dollars ... rather than in European currency. If you don't use them abroad, you can use them when you get home or cash them in at your bank without having to reconvert.

Buying of bonds gained momentum after the sudden drop in the Nikkei. Some investors are saying consumer prices won't rise as much as the central bank expects.

By pushing through the policy change, the Bank of Japan risks being blamed by the government if something happens to the economy and things deteriorate.

GDP is looking a lot weaker than we had anticipated and that should keep the Reserve Bank on hold for a fair while.

Get a credit report every year. Your bank can walk you through the process or get a copy of the report for you if you don't know how to get a credit report.

Jerry Weller

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

John Edwards

George Bush doesn't get to pick our nominee, and he doesn't get to decide what this election is about, ... This president is so bankrupt of ideas that he can't even wait until the Democrats pick a nominee before he starts drudging up the past and slinging mud.