Banking Quotes

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies

— Thomas Jefferson

Money never declines. Money just moves.

— Richard M. Kovacevich

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

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I happen to know a bit about banking.

— Justin Welby

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

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Brett King

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

— Anas Hamshari

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

— Martin Mayer

The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back…

— Duff McDonald

“Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a…

— John Rogers

We see this plan as a thinly-disguised plan to give the banking sector and government access to gold for the nations benefit.

— Julian Phillips

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

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

— Big Boi

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking…

— Adam McKay

There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.

— Ravi Subramanian

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and…

— Jeremy Corbyn

It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended…

— Alan M. Taylor

What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators,…

— Tyler Cowen

Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either…

— Charlie Brooker

You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that…

— Pete Carroll

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm…

— Anonymous

I am happy to be running a public sector bank. In times of stress, most people will always have an account with…

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened…

— Walter Bagehot

I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You…

— Larry Ellison

The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate…

— William Jennings Bryan

Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level…

— Rush Limbaugh

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than…

— Vince Cable

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own…

— Brenda Laurel

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy…

— Doug Liman

The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply…

— Jonathon Porritt

As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars…

— Eustace Mullins

“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

“Banks were once an extremely valuable part of the economy and did a lot of good in advancing civilization. Banks played a…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Sean Young

“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

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

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Charlie Munger

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

— Josiah Stamp