Checking Quotes

A lot of times we get caught by that because we play such a close-checking game. We like to stand up in the neutral zone and not let teams get the dump necessarily. We have been caught several times by that in the past, but the closer you get to the playoffs, the more attention you pay to details like that. - Mathieu Schneider

A lot of banks are claiming to have free checking. What you've found is there are a lot of barriers and hooks for consumers. - Stephen Rotella

A few of us got a private tour of the UN. That was the highlight of our trip -- it wasn't shopping or going to buy a new suit, it was checking out the General Assembly. - Andrew Ference

A client might see an exuberant 22-year-old female in the office, but I see a seasoned and energetic business partner with great leadership skills these days. She's way more organized than I am. She's shown a talent for site skills, checking plans against site conditions and saving project dollars with her attention to detail. - Tom Fox

A bill collector called me and I told them I had $17,208,857.23 in Mafia Wars but I'm having a problem transferring the funds to my checking. - Unknown

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account. - Bill Bryson

[Until a simpler and more secure day comes, only a handful of companies will persist in giving consumers more payment options than plastic.] We're looking to make a nice profit tapping into this market, but checking is an old payment method... You can't afford to ignore it, but I wouldn't plan my business around it for the next five years. - Tim Stevens

[To build its SOA environment, Staples first had to dissect its business processes into its component functions, such as inventory checking, build-to-order, order history, and so on.] Then they took that business model and they implemented it on top of IBM products, like WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, Product Center, and DB2 -- and they did this on iSeries... Now they have a kind of full, SOA environment that enables them to bring new services to the marketplace much quicker, allows them to integrate any piece of the company they have or acquisitions very quickly, and gives a single, seamless view of their customer set across multiple channels. So they've gotten extremely good business value from being able to do that. - Robert LeBlanc

[Indeed, consumer financial fraud has been around as long as checking accounts and credit cards, and banks already do plenty to stop fraud. But e-commerce has opened virgin criminal frontiers.] In the past, everything was much more traceable... Now you can open 10,000 (bogus) accounts in the time it used to take to open one, all in a faceless Internet. - Avivah Litan