Banking Quotes
253 quotes by 196 authors
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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
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
— Bertolt Brecht
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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
— Bertolt Brecht
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
— Woody Allen
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.
— Ralph George Hawtrey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
— Charles Kettering
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again
— Jean Baudrillard
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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
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
— Will Durant
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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
Who Wrote These Banking Quotes
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