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Quotes About Bank

Hold it right there. You men from the bank? You Wash's boy? Yessir and Daddy told me I'm to shoot whoever's from the bank. Well, we ain't from the bank young feller. Yessir, I'm also s'posed to shoot folks serving papers. We ain't got no papers neither. I nicked the census man. Now there's a good boy.
~ Unknown
you have to ask the right questions—you need some raw materials to work with. The following questions will allow you to build a bank of compelling testimonials that work with nearly any customer quickly and easily.
~ Donald Miller
The glint of devilment in his bright blue eyes, so blue that the FBI once described them in bulletins as azure. It's the rare bank robber who moves the FBI to such lyricism.
~ Unknown
They hardly noticed when a former president received $500,000 for a 2010 speech at the Renaissance Capital Bank in Moscow when his wife was serving as secretary of state.
~ Unknown
Coming back again to the investment bank world, they have meetings and all sorts of stuff going on that suck up time. Traders would all complain about the waste of time, but what it actually meant was that it limited the amount of time they were in front of their screens staring at their positions. You don't want to be sitting in front of your screen and staring at market prices for 12 hours a day. Staring at the price is not going to tell you very much.
~ Jack D. Schwager
if you set up a goal which will lead to an outcome that isn't final at all. We can return to our friend Fred for one example. Let's suppose he enters the bank, wanting his loan, but we take note of the fact that there are five banks in town, and this is just the first one. Now after he is turned down, the disaster isn't final at all; it's just a momentary setback, and he has four more banks to try.
~ Unknown
He referred to himself as a true representative of the people, a workingman, a veteran, without a bank account, investment income, or a mansion. "Workers," he declared, "you must look upon me as your guarantor. I was born a son of the people; I have spent all my life struggling for you.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
But it's going to be used for the health and welfare of the bank accounts of the businessmen of Palm County, and done with so many reasonable arguments it'll be years before the public realizes what a polite screwing it took, here and all up and down this coast. Maybe what I'm saying is this, people. Nobody is going to listen to sweet reason.
~ John D. MacDonald
gardening leave—a legally required paid vacation to prevent conflicts of interest or sensitive information from passing from one bank to another.
~ Unknown
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
~ John Steinbeck
We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man. Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
~ John Steinbeck
It was then that Doc devised a method for getting revenge on a bank if anyone should ever want to. 'Rent a safety deposit box,' he said, 'then deposit in it one whole fresh salmon and go away for six months.
~ John Steinbeck
Yes, but the bank is only made of men. No, you're wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. The
~ John Steinbeck
see, a bank or a company can't do that, because those creatures don't breathe air, don't eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat. It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so.
~ John Steinbeck
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
~ John Steinbeck
But—you see, a bank or a company can't do that, because those creatures don't breathe air, don't eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat. It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so.
~ John Steinbeck
In 1929 the firm received their largest project to date, the one that might have won the day for them on the Empire State project—they built the Bank of Manhattan Building at 40 Wall Street, which was pitted against Chrysler in the race for the world's tallest. The foundations were started in May 1928, before the site was entirely cleared; less than a year later, the bank moved in. The seventy-story, 927-foot-high building was completed in eleven months.
~ John Tauranac
Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.
~ Tom Clancy
I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.
~ Marcello Giordani
If life's a gamble well fu.. it I got bank.
~ Jadakiss
In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.
~ Unknown
It seems a lost opportunity that Capra didn't give George Bailey, or the Giannini-inspired idealistic bank president in his film American Madness, an Italian surname. The next time a great Italian-American filmmaker, one who established his career in San Francisco, would portray a member of the community, the character would be the fictional antihero Vito Corleone, whose name would penetrate the nation's collective memory far deeper than that of A. P. Giannini.
~ Unknown
Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
~ Chris Rock