Thrift Quotes

Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. - William Shakespeare

Critics tend to talk about subsidies and look at Fannie and Freddie in isolation, forgetting that banks and thrifts are also subsidized. - Kenneth Posner

Clearly, there are huge opportunities in improved customer service and increased business opportunities for car sales dealers who take the time to follow up with customers. Dealers typically don't have the manpower to adequately follow up. Our beta test of the business development center concept for Thrifty Car Sales has already proven very effective. - Jeff Cerefice

Citigroup's acquisition of Golden State was an outlier in what was otherwise another slow quarter for bank and thrift mergers. Deal activity, as measured in number of deals, was up modestly from an abysmal first quarter. We expect this trend will continue. - James Record

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know. - Natalia Ginzburg

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be thrifty, but not covetous. - George Herbert

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business. - John Allison