#bank

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#bankers #bankruptcy #became #calling #ceo

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cable #car #dominate #john #media

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#cities #closed #everything #forces #israeli

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#built #children #farmers #gen #hired

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#israel #know #length #less #little

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#bit #costs #dollars #everything #film

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance. ↗

— Suze Orman

#around #backed #bank #business #chances

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account. ↗

— Suze Orman

#aside #bank #costs #credit #eight

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government. ↗

— George Osborne

#banking system #change #gone #government #learn

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. ↗

— George Osborne

#bank #central #central bank #debt #dissipated