Banking Quotes · Page 7

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from…

— Stephanie Ruhle

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

— Anne Robinson

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

— Michael Ovitz

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

— Frederick W. Smith

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

— Elizabeth Warren

I liked the so-called Volcker Rule. I would have separated investment banking and commercial, deposit banking, as we did under the Glass-Steagal…

— John C. Bogle

I worked in investment banking for two years. I was in a program where they kind of just owned you. And you…

— David Einhorn

There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance…

— William Howard Taft

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily…

— Guy Kawasaki

Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If…

— Mike Beebe

In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there…

— Perianne Boring

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as…

— Vince Cable

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has…

— Michael Hudson

“Without deposit banking modern economies would be impossible. Banks are not only a means of safeguarding money, but also a method of…

— Thomas F. Madden

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,…

— John Francis Hylan

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created…

— G. Edward Griffin

“Investment banking may not be the absolute worst, but it’s up there, full of pride when they describe their requirement to work…

— Anonymous

When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over…

— Max Lucado

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply…

— Curtis Bean Dall

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around…

— Anne Robinson

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

— William Jennings Bryan

As with so many sectors of the economy, technology is transforming the retail banking sector.

— Jerome Powell

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

— Jean Baudrillard

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

— Mark Zandi

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

— Sanford I. Weill

“A healthy Banking system is one of the vital parts of a nation's foundation.”

— Hendrith Smith

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

— Felix Rohatyn

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

— William Paterson

“How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.

— Charlie Munger

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

— Mitt Romney

Frankly, I have a lot of interests, and I am not all that wedded only to banking.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

— Bob Saget

In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya