Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Dev Hynes

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Bill Vaughan

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

The American public knows that the banking sector has had record profits for the last four years. It's an opportunity to be generous.

We have already made big progress in banking reforms.

With the financials, that entire space has been tarnished by a confidence crisis. Also, on a more fundamental level rather than a psychological level, there's no investment banking business going on right now. The concerns remain about the banks' exposure to bankrupt telecoms WorldCom and Global Crossing,

Most banking systems in the Asia-Pacific region have improved their credit profiles, thanks to stable economic conditions and continuing structural improvements. This is in spite of rising oil prices and interest rates threatening the broader economic recovery.

Merchant banking remains an exceptional business for the handful of Wall Street firms that have remained in it. Unfortunately, the disclosure of merchant banking portfolio positions is weak, and forecasting these gains is at best challenging.

Wholesale banking did better than expected in the second half.

Elizabeth Warren

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.

We need to promote competition, which will benefit the Chinese banking sector over the long haul.

Martin Taylor

We made a strategic decision to redefine our investment banking business in the autumn, because continuing to invest in parts of the business no longer made commercial sense for us.

I think, overall, banking is about service and convenience . We know we are better in service (than the big banks). Now, we can be more convenient too.

We hope that our extended hours will help working families manage their banking transactions.

We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business,

We have strong momentum in all our businesses as the benefits from continued execution in our consumer businesses were accompanied this quarter by a rebound in trading and good performance in investment banking and wealth management.

David Dickinson

We do some high-quality work in our banking group, but if we want to do more of it we need more people.

Navigating the complex legal and tax issues involved in investing and banking offshore requires the services of a professional who is specially trained in offshore investing and banking.

China has speeded up the overhaul of its banking sector to improve corporate governance and debt quality. Efforts include pouring funds into bigger, healthier players and encouraging them to go public overseas.

Vance Law

Going by the game stats we give up another big inning. Walks and timely hitting by them pretty well spelled doom for us. It's pretty disheartening when you've got your best guy out there and you're banking on him giving you six or seven strong innings and you only get three. We just feel like he was forced out of the game early with walks. I won't say with control, I'll say with walks.

I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor in Japan's economic recovery they are buying the most liquid Japanese stocks -- banks.

I think it's clear that the banks that are more tied to the retail sector are going to have a much tougher quarter compared to those with diversified positions. The banks in the retail sector have to deal with interest rate compression, loan volume will be tougher, and they don't have the trading or investment banking that are hot now.

We're proud of our heritage in West Virginia, and we're proud to move to a brand that has a long-standing place in our country's banking history. Through expanded products and services, our combined company will make banking even more convenient and efficient for Chase customers in our region.

George Bernard Shaw

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,

He was a banker's banker. He saw banking not just as a business and a profession but as a way to give back.

If they're going to go toe to toe with Citigroup, they're going need to have more powerhouse entry in the investment banking area, ... This is not the end of Chase's acquisitions in the investment banking field.

I'd like to think that this is a bottoming out and people are starting to see the value that a lot of these banking stocks offer. I'd like to think there's some bottoming out and strength, but in general the market is nervous.

Richard Byrd

I am delighted to join an institution that is so passionate about helping its clients, ... City National is clearly the place to be for superior private banking and wealth management services.

Ben Bernanke

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

Free banking has provided the greatest growth over the last two years.