47 Quotes by John Allison

Arrgh, my dad's here to pick me up. How can he be so insensitive to intrigue?

Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.

We are at somewhat of a lull in consolidation, but I think that will pick up again,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.