Banking Quote by Henry Paulson Download Open image “Complexity and interconnectedness matter as much as size in assessing risk in banking.” — Henry Paulson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banking Complexity Matter Risk Size
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 Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them. — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The kind of data and the data-analytical perspective privy to banks is quite unique to banks.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Sensible risk-taking isn't just important in the financial world; risk traverses all industries. — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I think that's something that investment banks have worried about for a long time and are continuing to worry about, but it's not an… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I look forward to the day when China has a truly market-determined solution... To get there, you need to have a currency that is… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States' economic and social fabric. Because of this… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
America is the land of opportunity. We need to be vigilant in ensuring that each and every American has the opportunity to acquire the… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I do not believe the United States and the Americans are going to let Donald Trump become president... I think the challenge is Donald… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe. — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan. — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image