Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Doug Liman

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts.

Uday Kotak

I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

Charles Alexander

We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big opportunities our senior management sees globally.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

Spencer White

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

Robert Rubin

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

Irv DeGraw

We're having a science fiction week in investment banking land. They're throwing so much out it's confusing the market.

Przemyslaw Gosiewski

This probe will reveal whether Poland had to change its banking sector this way over the last 17 years, or are there people who have erred. Surely, no foreign investor will be worse off because of it.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.

Marcy Kaptur

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

John Rothfield

Major central banks in the world have talked about hiking rates, so if the Bank of Canada signals they are coming to the end of rate increases, it may push investors to sell the Canadian dollar further.

Elizabeth Warren

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

Eric Maskin

A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.

Lou Jiwei

In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.

John McCullough

We've seen a dramatic increase, particularly at small banks. Larger banks are putting more effort on stopping these guys, so where do they go? Smaller institutions." ()

Quincy Krosby

There is competition for customers, and banks are sweetening the yields.

Paul Xiradis

The outlook for the banks has improved substantially in the past six months. Housing lending has held up better than expected and business lending has been very, very strong.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Gary David Goldberg

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

Wang Zheng

The extent of the rate hike this time is fairly small. What is more important is whether or not more lies ahead. And even if there are further rate hikes, it is investment that will first be impacted, followed by consumption.

Kevin Cook

The extent of the impact on the vehicle matches with the injuries to his left side,

Sathya Baba

One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one's patience and intelligent skill.

Gerald McKelvey

Many other tenants also lost people, and they did not force us to go to this extent to collect.

Donald Smithburg

should tour the facility so he can see for himself the extent of the damage.

Bill Boynton

We?re interested, maybe intrigued, but not to the extent we would pursue it.

Rob Lowe

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Rick Herdes

When I had to take guys out of the game and went to the bench, it seemed like we lost momentum. (Quincy) played extremely well.

Dan Curtis

Life is extremely valuable, and you don't always get a second chance. What a way to be able to say thank you to someone.

Nell Fortner

LSU is a well-oiled machine. They are extremely talented, but we feel we are playing them at a good time.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

rahul jaiswal

love has extreme feelings...one is being loved and the other is being hurt...

Ganiyat Adeduntan

Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Elliott Abrams

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success...

Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Charles Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Keyshawn Johnson

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

Richard Flanagan

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

Rhys Ifans

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

John Logan

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

Steven R. McQueen

Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

Pope Francis

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Pina Bausch

Your fragility is also your strength.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Billie Jean King

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

Cammi Granato

When I have given what I have given to the program, it is hard to just sit with this.

Rhonda Britten

When I am true to myself, others are given permission to do the same.

Timothy Noah

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

JoAnn Gurenlian

We're given the opportunity to qualify, ... If we can pour it on in the next two weeks, then we'll be in great shape.

Kevin Mitnick

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

Thomas p Kempis

Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.

Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

John McGreevy

One of the attractions for us is Mark's interest in global Christianity.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Alain de Botton

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Mo Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Ayad Allawi

major negligence on the part of some members of the multinational forces.

D. James

Major market indexes are going to remain in a range, ... I don't see a big trigger on the upside.

Jaren Jackson

Major is not a big scorer but he can play defense.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.