Banking Quote by James Surowiecki

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

— Anthony Giddens

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at…

— Nolan Bushnell

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

— Denis Waitley

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows…

— Suzy Kassem

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

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

— Bill Gates

“Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.”

— John Rogers

In the U.S. more than any other place, the banking system is insane. Millions of Americans lost their houses. Because of what? Because of…

— Costa-Gavras

“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if…

— James Madison

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs,…

— Muhammad Yunus