Banking Quote by Alan Greenspan

Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.

— Sharan Burrow

Sensible risk-taking isn't just important in the financial world; risk traverses all industries.

— Randi Zuckerberg

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the…

— James Grant

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

— Anat R. Admati

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously…

— Myron Scholes

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated,…

— James Surowiecki

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

— Benjamin Graham

With risk, sometimes you have tremendous success, sometimes not so much.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

— Bill Gates

“You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the “business value of risk management.”

— Pearl Zhu