Quotes of: World-bank Keyword

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

Bob Diamond

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

Judd Gregg

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Paula Poundstone

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Phyllis Diller

No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.

Vash Young

Mary Poppins: You *are* the father of Jane and Michael Banks, are you not? [pause] Mary Poppins: I said, you *are* the father of Jane and Michael Banks. Mr. Banks: Well, really - yes, of course. And you brought your references, I presume; may I see t...

Mary Poppins

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

Brother Odd

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

Mitt Romney

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Michele Bachmann

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Marilyn Monroe

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Bethenny Frankel

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Dan Barber

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.

Heather Mills

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

Eton produced Society's Monsters - everyone knew that. Politicians, mostly, and occasionally people who ran banks and all the other institutions that stole the world's spoils for themselves.

The Boy in the Smoke

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Pales...

Thomas Friedman

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throat...

Michael Ignatieff

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit...

Manmohan Singh

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by...

Charles Comiskey