Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie Plagnol

Risks remain and uncertainty is on the rise, this was in substance the message of G7 finance ministers and central bankers this weekend, ... Even if global economic growth remains solid, it is suffering from high oil prices, U.S. deficits and the rise of protectionism.

Diana Yates

M&A is not going to be enough to carry the day for investment bankers as far as earnings go.

Thom Browne

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.

Richard Yamarone

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal. Central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn't sneak out.

Rich Yamarone

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal -- central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn't sneak out. The worst thing a central bank can do when fighting inflation is fall behind the curve. Therefore, we are fairly comfortable with our Street-high estimate.

Ben Bernanke

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Tony Dolphin

If we think about the fundamentals, global growth is still good, business confidence is generally rising, inflation is close to target in most countries, central bankers are not talking aggressively.

Lupe Fiasco

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Jeff Carty

People here know that I don't get intimidated easily. I think the only thing I was worried about was failing because so many things have happened the last three to four years of my life.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Jared Bernstein

I think the fingerprints of a faltering job market are all over this report. We've got more people working, but they're failing to get ahead.

Mitch Kapor

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail.

Dave Mustaine

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.