Deitermann Group Quotes & Sayings

As I gather my thoughts here in order to get to the point, I am reminded of a joke Zafar made when he was still in banking. I say joke, but Zafar was always rather serious about banking and often talked about accountability, as he called it. This stuff is so esoteric, he once said, that the only people who understand it are in the business. What about regulators? I asked. Regulators, he replied, have one eye on the revolving door. Academics make money teaching traders their latest research, and politicians don't know their arses from their elbows. Can you imagine the people on a march against finance? The guy on a megaphone shouting: What do we want? And everyone answering: Specific curbs on short selling in certain circumstances. When do we want it? In phases and at appropriate times. That's the joke. It was funny at the time. — Zia Haider Rahman

When the weather is OK, a great yard is far more important to kids than the inside of their house. — Mike Lanza

I found my spirit wanted to choose between only two things - suicide, or the dreams I'd had in my youth. I am an old fool who borrowed the dreams of a young fool. — Kurt Vonnegut

I just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people. — Mike Bibby

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it. — David Gemmell

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes. — Steven Tyler

And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life - the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually acknowledge and experience this fact. — Daniel Robberechts