Banking Quotes

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

— George Washington

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

— Bill Gates

Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose!

— Max Keiser

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

— Hans F. Sennholz

The Greek economy is improving, which should benefit the banking sector.

— John Paulson

In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.

— Patrick Dixon

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

— Anat R. Admati

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Steven Magee

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

— Chanda Kochhar

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

— Steven Wright

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

— Charles Kettering

[ 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

“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

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

— George Washington

I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and…

— Bill Frist

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us…

— will.i.am

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually…

— John Steele Gordon

They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be…

— Joseph Stiglitz

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created…

— Anonymous

“when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES!…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a…

— Anne Fletcher

A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing,…

— Michael Parenti

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural…

— Adam Smith

Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained…

— Murray Rothbard

As a matter of fact 25% of our U.S. investment banking business comes out of our commercial bank. So it's a competitive…

— Jamie Dimon

Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the…

— Martin Walker

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting.…

— Alan Moore

In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds…

— Sean Young

“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs…

— Suzy Kassem

“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694,…

— David Graeber

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one…

— Suzy Kassem

I happen to know a bit about banking.

— Justin Welby

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Money never declines. Money just moves.

— Richard M. Kovacevich