Famous Quotes & Sayings

We believe investors are justifiably growing increasingly concerned that production disruptions due to labor disputes are increasingly probable as there are currently two suppliers in bankruptcy with another more than likely headed in that direction.

Frederick Soddy

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Peter Green

With a slowing economy, banks loan less, ... It's disappointing that the market can't rally on rate cuts.

With any bank consolidation, there are efficiencies to be gained.

Yields won't gain much after the policy shift because the central bank won't keep tightening monetary policy.

The problem is that people are in serious debt in this country. Outstanding consumer debt is at all-time highs, and debt is like an illness. You don't solve an illness by making it harder to get into a hospital, which is what bankruptcy court is for debtors.

There are rumors that the central bank has injected capital into selective brokerages and let them buy stocks, as current valuations of most blue chips are obviously too low.

There are restrictions on city commercial banks on where they can operate... But through merging together, they can expand their business scales.

The one thing we can be confident of is that the books are cooked. We don't need to know who cooked the books to know that there is deep trouble for this company ... Bankruptcy reorganization looms and that the creditors are going to start looking for deep pockets to sue.

Robert Kiyosaki

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.

Ron Paul

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Stephen Stills

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

Jean Reno

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

Ed Markey

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

Alex Berenson

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

Alex Berenson

Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

John Lydon

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

Lamar S. Smith

We should not encourage lawsuits that blame others for our own choices and could bankrupt an entire industry.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

Adam McKay

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

Barry Hannah

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

Scott Anderson

We have several banking relationships with Okanogan businesses and residents of Okanogan. This makes it more convenient for them and those that are not members. This is an opportunity for us.

This was an effort in progress for months before the Bank of New York hit the news, ... This is a much broader issue than Russia.

There is really nothing for the community banks to fear here.

The panic of 1837, the contest of the United States Bank with President Jackson, its defeat, and its subsequent failure as a state bank, the consequent distress in local financial circles--all conspired to shift the monetary center of the country to New York.