Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we're seeing is people banking enormous profits in these stocks.

Jeff Carter

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 attractive for Chase customers in Florida.

We're expanding our branches in the Florida market, going to full banking centers to focus on customer service.

We're banking on these kids that come to take over.

Ricky Romero

We're banking on coming back to nothing, ... or not coming back at all.

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Charlie Munger

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Charlie Munger

The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

Bob Saget

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

We are probably at the point where the trading cycle is slowing, at least in North America, and it's tough to say investment banking will get better. But the retail and asset management businesses look really good. That's what's exciting to investors.

John Roberts

When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."

Worldwide, we grew our commercial banking business strongly on the back of recent investment.

We're seeing more and more that Japan wants to implement banking reform. That's the key. That's very positive.

Bertolt Brecht

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Jamie Dimon

Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.

Jamie Dimon

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

Jamie Dimon

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

Jamie Dimon

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Benjamin Tucker

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.

Bill Gates

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Bill Gates

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

Carlos Rogers

We were in an all-out blitz, ... and we were banking on them not having time to throw it. We've got to tighten out coverage up, because at times we can't rely on the blitz getting there .

We are always banking on our gadget plays.

Kenneth C. Griffin

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Watts

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

Alan Moore

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

We achieved a truly outstanding result in 2005 with record performances in both the corporate and investment banking and in the private clients and asset management business.

Post this transformation project, First Investment Bank is poised to redefine banking in the region and we are delighted to be a part of this change.

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.

Thomas Woods

The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.

The price was expensive and the decision to raise it 23 percent came as a surprise. The sale took place when most investors had already added sufficient banking stocks to their portfolios so they don't have strong reasons for buying.