Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“When you gain, they (banks) gain. When you lose, they’re indifferent.” — Anas Hamshari Copy Share Image
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance. — Martin Mayer Copy Share Image
The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders. — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation. — Judd Gregg Copy Share Image
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
“It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
“Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce… — Kit Bond Copy Share Image
We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a… — Anne Fletcher Copy Share Image
We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days… — Willem Buiter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny... — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image