Banking Quotes · Page 5

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

— Chanda Kochhar

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

— Vince Cable

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

— Ron Paul

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal,…

— Barry Eichengreen

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country…

— Nicos Anastasiades

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break…

— Craig Ferguson

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

— Mervyn King

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

— Boris Brasol

“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

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

— Judd Gregg

Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he…

— Ally Carter

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

— Jarvis Cocker

Capital is kind of a banking concept.

— Paul Singer

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Walter Bagehot

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.

— Steve Eisman

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to…

— Vladimir Potanin

Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!

— James P. Gorman

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,…

— Philipp Meyer

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the…

— Ben Bernanke