Banking Quote by Robert G. Wilmers

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

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to…

— Steve Mnuchin

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 business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

— John Buchanan Robinson

Higher capital requirements increase bank costs, and at least some of those costs will be passed along to bank customers and shareholders. But in…

— Jerome Powell

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their…

— Evan Davis

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

— Felix Rohatyn

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.

— Ben Bernanke

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

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

— Bertolt Brecht

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

Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy.

— Ben Bernanke