Banking Quotes

253 quotes by 196 authors

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession… — Jean Baudrillard
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? — Bertolt Brecht
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own… — James Buchan
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests… — Smedley Butler
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities… — Vince Cable
You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government,… — Dick Cheney
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were… — Julia Child
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. — Woody Allen
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. — Jarvis Cocker
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set… — Thomas Jefferson
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political… — Barry Goldwater
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;… — Muhammad Yunus
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again — Jean Baudrillard
This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will… — Martin Mayer
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard — Will Durant
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative;… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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