Banking Quotes · Page 4

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

— Judd Gregg

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a…

— Ben Bernanke

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

— Bob Diamond

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.

— Ralph George Hawtrey

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

— George Washington

“It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact…

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are…

— Robert F. Engle

If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.

— Kenneth Fisher

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as…

— John Redwood

When commercial banking opened up for the private sector, I set up the retail-banking division for ICICI and grew it substantially. I…

— Chanda Kochhar

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it…

— Felix Rohatyn

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or…

— Erwin McManus

If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable.…

— Robert Greene

Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce…

— Kit Bond

To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs…I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts,…

— John C. Danforth

When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government…

— James Rickards

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.…

— Thomas Frank

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International…

— Janet Yellen

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or…

— Warren Stephens

Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days…

— Willem Buiter

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

— James Grant

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

— Jamie Dimon

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

— James Grant

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

— Christine Lagarde

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

— Steven Wright

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

— David Duke

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

— Alan Greenspan

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

— Charles Kettering

The growth that we are targeting for our bank is in line with the banking industry.

— Chanda Kochhar

“I never keep my money in just one bank. They can disappear overnight and it can be a long time before you…

— Steven Magee

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

— Ron Paul

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

— Bill Vaughan

“Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they’re in. A bank is just an IT company with…

— Gene Kim

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

— Philipp Meyer

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the…

— Justin Welby