Can do Quote by Irving Fisher

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money…

— Irving Fisher

As a matter of fact 25% of our U.S. investment banking business comes out of our commercial bank. So it's a competitive advantage for…

— Jamie Dimon

“The banks are less solvent than we are being told – probably by a very wide margin. The commercial banks are limited to a 10:1”

— Kelly Mitchell

If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be…

— Jamie Dimon

Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as…

— Murray Rothbard

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

— Jamie Dimon

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

— John Gutfreund

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or…

— Robert W. Hemphill

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

— Robert W. Hemphill

I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and…

— Bob Hawke

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

— Ben Bernanke

JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail…

— Jamie Dimon