This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this flawed hero as he gains a liberating knowledge of himself.
Finding the balance between making financial institutions safe and secure and also fostering economic growth and job creation is what we need. We need tough supervision and monitoring of these rules so that we don't run into the situation again where...
I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of th...
Mr. Dawes Sr.: While stand the banks of England, England stands - whoa, whoa...! [Mr. Dawes lurches forward, the others steady him] Mr. Dawes Sr.: When fall the banks of England... ENGLAND FALLS! [Mr. Dawes falls backward; the rest of the Board of Di...
Walt Disney: I have my own Mr. Banks. Mine had a mustache. P.L. Travers: [sarcastically] So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image? Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?
[Dolly is relaying Mrs. Travers' notes to Disney] Dolly: She wants to know why Mr. Banks was given a moustache. Walt Disney: [off-handedly] Oh, I asked for that. Dolly: Yes, she wants to know why. Walt Disney: [pointedly] Because *I* asked for it.
For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend ...
Luxury is a state of mind.
He's as cool as a prized marrow!
Everybody is a teenage idol.
It's not about the money for me.
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
I'm not interested in business for business's sake.
A car for every purse and purpose.
In the future, I want to have children.
Learning something new is fun.
I don't pitch for contracts.
There is but one game and that game is baseball.
As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At s...
