Able Quote by Gina Rinehart

Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't…

— James P. Gorman

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

— Ernest Hemingway

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

— Anonymous

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent…

— George W. Bush

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events…

— John Redwood

I tried to sell mortgages for just under a year and saw the tail end of the mortgage crisis. I was not great at…

— Tim Dillon

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years…

— Elizabeth Warren

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.…

— George Osborne

I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.

— Maxine Waters

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out…

— Richard Branson

The cash was comin fast, money grew like grass. People hungry for the blast that don't even last. Didn't want to be involved but…

— Kool G Rap

What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate.…

— Vikram Pandit