Banking Quotes · Page 4

Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

“Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“A bank is but honesty with a premium. At least this is what it is supposed to be.”

— Lamine Pearlheart

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail,

— Sally Jewell

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

— Michael Lewis

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

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

— Vince Cable

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

— Perianne Boring

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 banking industry has traditionally been characterized by physical branches, privileged access to financial data, and distinct expertise in analyzing such data.

— Jerome Powell

In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we'd love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers…

— Debra L. Reed

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to…

— James Chanos

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it…

— James Buchan

Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn't about banking the unbanked. It's about re-imagining what…

— Dan Schulman

I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army…

— Jeremy Irons

We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call…

— Noreena Hertz

“He never addressed it as infidelity. To Jordan Belfort and his men, sex with a Blue Chip was a reflex of sorts…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were…

— Murray Rothbard

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions…

— Jim Keith

I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all…

— Frank A. Vanderlip

If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking…

— Muriel Siebert

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the…

— Stephen Harper

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

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

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

— Judd Gregg

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

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

— Bob Diamond

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

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

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

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

— James Grant

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

— James Grant

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

— Christine Lagarde

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

— George Washington

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.

— Ralph George Hawtrey

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

“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

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

— Alan Greenspan