Quotes Tagged "bank"

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept my currency of words. So I boxed all my stories and took them to charity. But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead. I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

A poor man without a debt smiles often than a rich man in debt.

A dinner sponsored by a debt spoils the next day.

A man in poverty suffers intermittently but a man in debt suffers constantly.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

If the U.S. doesn't have an export credit agency, which is what the Export-Import Bank is, then we can't compete with other countries that do. Every other country in the world that competes in aerospace has an export credit agency.

Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time.