Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Stephens

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.

Warren Stephens

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.

Warren Stephens

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

William Kirby

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.

Elizabeth Warren

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

Elizabeth Warren

Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.

Elizabeth Warren

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Eric Betzig

Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.

Preity Zinta

I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.

Norman Schwarzkopf

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Vaclav Klaus

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

Patrick Modiano

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

Gitte Lindgaard

Unless the first impression is favorable, visitors will be out of your site before they even know that you might be offering more than your competitors.

Larry Wall

The impression we're getting from our members is that it's going even better than expected.

Michael Conforti

The impression is we're in a cabal with bandits.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

Johnny Damon

I like to make an impression.

Robert Martin

This is a little surprising, because I know that some of the integration work had already taken place, so I was under the impression that they were on track to close.

Alan Ruskin

All in all this is very much second-tier data, but the overriding impression is that any slowdown is at worst modest,

Vladimir Kramnik

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Brett Favre

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

Gabriel Byrne

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

Coolio

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Paul Anka

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

Susan Isaacs

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

Virat Kohli

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Tatum O'Neal

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Charles Dance

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Valerie June

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

John Connolly

We had a number of half-chances and we put ourselves in a position to do things, but the forwards were very disappointing,

Steny Hoyer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Mathieu Schneider

We didn't play like the number one seed. We put ourselves in a position where it could all be over early.

Aerin Lauder

I don't use a stylist. I know what I like, so I do it myself. I rip things out from fashion magazines. It's easy to order when the phone number is right on the page.

Jean Kerr

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Jeffrey Smith

There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can find a 17th-century tapestry for $3,000 to $4,000, and then there are half-million-dollar tapestries.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

Larry Mullen

I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Samuel Butler

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Louise Woodward

I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Lynn Coady

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Andrej Kiska

I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.

Hines Ward

Yeah. But if he catches you he will end your career, trust me.

Peter Sis

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

William Shakespeare

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Baz Luhrmann

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it