Quotes of: World-bank Keyword

Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'

Brian Kilmeade

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Tom Seaver

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Orrin Woodward

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Paul Watson

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

Richard Greenberg

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

Roy Horn

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.

Sanjay Kumar

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Sophie Kinsella

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track.

Suze Orman

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Satchel Paige

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Satchel Paige

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

Langston Hughes

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

Marcy Kaptur

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

Michael Moore

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

Scott Cook