Financial quotes of the month

“This summer season is not only over, you can say it has been martyred!” Pierre Achkar, head of the Hotels Association, following the mass kidnappings in Lebanon last month “We expect profits to fall by 4 to 5 percent and this is linked to the situation in Lebanon and the region.” Makram Sader, secretary general of the Association of Banks in Lebanon, on profits of the banking sector Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based computer security firm, in a statement on the Gauss computer worm targeting Arab bank accounts and affecting more than 1,600 computers in Lebanon: “All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations.” “I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the last 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that.” Mitt Romney, US Republican presidential candidate,