Major Banks Quotes

#1. 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.

Ben Bernanke

#2. Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

Paul Keating

#3. The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

Ramin Bahrani

#4. When Charlie and I finish reading the long footnotes detailing the derivatives activities of major banks, the only thing we understand is that we don't understand how much risk the institution is running.

Warren Buffett

#5. The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

Warren Buffett

#6. On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

Robert C. Solomon

#7. Why temples? thought Moist, as he looked up at the facade of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork. Why do they always build banks to look like temples, despite the fact that several major religions (a) are canonically against what they do inside and (b) bank there?

Terry Pratchett

#8. I wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.

John Steinbeck

#9. Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

Mario Monti

#10. That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.

Richard Simmons

#11. As long as research data is stored as tacit knowledge in people's minds or buried in interview transcripts, teams will experience difficulty synthesizing what has been observed and learned.

Bella Martin

#12. When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

Peer Steinbruck

#13. A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#14. I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.

Elizabeth Banks

#15. Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

Jim Rohn

#16. My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

#17. The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

Sean Penn

#18. After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

Ben Bernanke

#19. Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense ... no hard feelings.

Solange Knowles

#20. By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.

Robin Harris

#21. A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Zac Efron

#22. What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

Astra Taylor