John Allison Quotes (18 Quotes)

We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.

This merger accelerates our long-term earnings growth potential by expanding our Tennessee market.

Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and move there, and now we understand, the best reports we're getting that our house there is underwater.

We happen to believe in the fundamental concept of individual rights, and one of those is property rights. If that is jeopardized, our entire financial system is also in jeopardy.

BBT 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 (MA) business.

One of the most basic rights of every citizen is to keep what they own. As an institution dedicated to helping our clients achieve economic success and financial security, we won't help any entity or company that would undermine that mission and threaten the hard-earned American dream of property ownership.

We're programming these agents to have knowledge about the battlespace,

A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people.

I think the market needs to believe that interest rates have peaked, and secondly, that we are not going to have a recession at that point.

We continue to look, but the problem is the market price. There are companies interested in selling, but they have such high expectations that when you run the numbers, you can't match the market price in many cases. It doesn't make any economic sense to me.

It takes a long time to work through them and get enough evidence to do what we need to do. There (are) some pockets of the state that we're concerned with.

Traditionally, we haven't scored very well in the region, but a lot of times in the past we were so much better than the competition that it didn't matter. This year, we're not as good, and the competition is better. Hopefully, with those two things, we'll get fired up and shoot a good score.

Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these positive results reflect a very good start to 2006.

Most people realize that capitalism is a great system for achieving productivity, but a lot of people also seem to think it also has an immoral side to it. We happen to believe it's a direct result of freedom, and we wanted to encourage colleges to look at it.

I have this overwhelming desire to meet my genetic offspring. We'd rent a boat, we'd go fishing. I'd answer anything they had to say.

If it's too good to be true, something's wrong.

The idea that a citizen's property can be taken by the government solely for private use is extremely misguided, in fact it's just plain wrong.

The word got out that this is a nice tournament. People know they're treated in fine fashion when they come down, and it's good competition.