Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francisco Goya

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

Felix Rohatyn

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.

Nicola Sturgeon

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

will.i.am

I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'

Zubin Mehta

I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.

We did the right thing by limiting the number of suites, ... The club seats are the product the companies want unless you're HP, Bank of America. For most businesses getting rid of 12, 18 suite tickets every game is too difficult and cumbersome.

You look back and it's a bank three to start the game and, well, that looks pretty big right now. Just the breaks of the game. We didn't get them, but our kids are champions. They worked hard and it was still a very good season.

You don't put robbers to work in a bank

(Today's data) will likely keep the Bank of Canada on track for a rate hike at next week's decision,

Today's data make it all the more likely that the Bank of England will be on hold in July.

Mario Batali

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Martha Beck

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

Ted Cruz

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

Wolfgang Schauble

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

We demand that NABI immediately retain an investment bank other than Lehman, or in conjunction with Lehman, to explore strategies to maximize shareholder value.

We don't know who will lease these gates. The Delta bankruptcy hearing has not occurred. We don't have those gates in our possession yet.

To have an effective monetary policy, you have to have a robust borrowing and lending cycle. The problem is that households and businesses are both overextended, while banks have problems with their current loan base. So we don't have a viable borrowing and lending cycle, which means that monetary policy is not working effectively.

We don't have the cash reserves to be in bankruptcy a long time,

If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.

We are seeing investors get out of oil and mining stocks and recycle back into the banks and financials. They are moving away from value stocks back into growth stocks.

We are seeing investors get out of oil and mining stocks and back into banks and financials.

We are seeing decent physical demand on pullbacks. Lower central banks sales are also boosting prices.

We are optimistic about cooperation between Chinese banks and foreign strategic investors because the banks are committed to reform.

Tina Brown

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

Timothy Noah

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

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.

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.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

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

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

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.