Banking Quotes · Page 12

I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to…

— Bindi Irwin

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory…

— Paulo Freire

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using…

— Walter Bagehot

It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors…

— Tina Brown

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who…

— Si Robertson

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people…

— Muhammad Yunus

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more…

— Abraham Lincoln

We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us…

— Jamie Dimon

The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire…

— Boris Brasol

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business. The threat to…

— Mary Schapiro

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to…

— Alan Greenspan

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the…

— Josiah Stamp

The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking,…

— Chuck Robb

But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for…

— Glenn Beck

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be…

— Andrew Jackson

I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to…

— Jamie Dimon

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left…

— Frances O'Grady

In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk…

— John G. Stumpf

I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never…

— Amish Tripathi

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at…

— Joe Flanigan

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment…

— Douglass North

It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest…

— Thomas A. Edison

American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to…

— John Adams

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big…

— Walter Isaacson

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of…

— Nouriel Roubini

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when…

— Edith Wharton

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major…

— Lawrence Summers

If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests.…

— Julian Assange

'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step…

— Barry Ritholtz

The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been…

— Thomas Woods

“Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

The Finance Ministry will ensure regular assessment so that our announcements, especially those pertaining to the banking sector, are implemented in a…

— Anurag Thakur

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was…

— Chetan Bhagat

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I…

— Henry Ford

Banking now is like sending a letter: you send it, you don't know if it reached there. Ripple is more like sending…

— Chris Larsen

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything…

— Mark Pincus

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as…

— Peer Steinbruck