Banks Quotes · Page 4

“banks were ‘international in life, but national in death’.”

— Martin Wolf

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

— Elizabeth Warren

The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest.

— Michael Hudson

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

— Ginni Rometty

Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.

— Suze Orman

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

— Vijay Mallya

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

— Giannina Braschi

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

— Jasmine Guinness

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

— Ted Cruz

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not…

— Janine di Giovanni

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the…

— Michael Hudson

Yes, some banks will only float good companies. But others could not give two hoots if you have a business, a business…

— Mark Getty

As American citizens, if you believe all banks were bailed out, you would hate banks. I would, too.

— Jamie Dimon

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

— Jerome Kerviel

In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.

— Bethany McLean

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people…

— Muhammad Yunus

What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were…

— James Chanos

“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world,…

— Marc Faber

I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies…

— Patrick Collison

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of…

— Murray Rothbard

Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There…

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Lamine Pearlheart

There's a very thin market and the banks seem to be taking their toll on the market.

— Tom Green

“(Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is.”

— Willie Sutton

“It is often said 'money does not grow on trees'. Then why do banks have branches?”

— I read it somewhere Ian Welch

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

— Anas Hamshari

We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.

— George Osborne

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

— Robert Hughes

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

— Alex Berenson

Most people who rely on food banks are there through no fault of their own.

— Luciana Berger

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We need the banks to be attractive to investors again.

— Ana Patricia Botin

In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed.

— Michael Hudson

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies

— Thomas Jefferson

I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

— Steve Scalise

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

— Elizabeth Warren

“Money even creates divides within the banks themselves.”

— Anthony T. Hincks