Banking Quote by Martin Mayer Download Open image “Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.” — Martin Mayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Finance Banking Cocaine Cracks Customer Deposit Deposit Insurance Deposits Finance Insurance Proved Money Proved Crack
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Do not blow dealers for crack; blow regular citizens for cash, then buy the crack directly. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“June 3, 1987 Chicago This afternoon I found a $50 bill in the foyer of the building near the mailboxes. It was folded thin… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the… — Martin Mayer Copy Share Image
Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather… — Martin Mayer Copy Share Image
People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus. — Martin Mayer Copy Share Image
This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that… — Martin Mayer 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
It's not that I have any general aversion to technology but online banking just seems to be asking for trouble. You can have enough… — David Essex 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
I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology. — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image
“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
![“The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2db/h-l-mencken-245_banking_the-federal-bank-deposit-insurance-schem_1553577.jpg)
