Borrowing Quote by Martin Mayer

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

— John Steinbeck

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit.…

— John Adams

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

— John Steinbeck

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity,…

— Thomas Jefferson

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under…

— Herve Falciani

Men are like...Bank Accounts. Without a lot of money, they don't generate much interest.

— Anonymous

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they…

— Ben Stein

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

— Paul Goldberger

The banks run the place.

— Collin Peterson