Banking Quotes · Page 2

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies

— Thomas Jefferson

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

— Josiah Stamp

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

— Charlie Munger

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

— Martin Mayer

“When you gain, they (banks) gain. When you lose, they’re indifferent.”

— Anas Hamshari

“Banking is no longer somewhere you go, it’s something you do.”

— Brett King

“Those who say don't know, those who know don't say”

— Michael Lewis

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

— Christine Lagarde

[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

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

The world is not going to fall as long as there is confidence in governments and in banking institutions and the financial…

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

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

— Bob Diamond

“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

We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a…

— Ajay Piramal

If you're just interested in the prestige of banking, that's not what's going to sustain you. You have to be interested in…

— James P. Gorman

It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse…

— Murray Rothbard

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there…

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded.…

— Louise Wilson

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

— Alan Moore

Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast…

— J. G. Ballard

To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security.…

— Michael Hudson

I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and…

— Stephen Coonts

The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions…

— Milton Friedman

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

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

— Jamie Dimon

[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.

— Robert G. Wilmers

Banking is a branch of the information business.

— Walter Wriston

“Banking on success is to spur personal growth.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny...

— John C. Danforth

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

— Carl Webb

People are losing faith in the banking system due to security issues.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

Capital is kind of a banking concept.

— Paul Singer