Assets Quote by Warren Buffett

No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with… The existence of banks with single digit amounts of…

— Anat R. Admati

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

Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.

— Jamie Dimon

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden…

— Walter Bagehot

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that…

— Walter Bagehot

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally…

— Ben Bernanke

It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too…

— Amy Klobuchar

Every business makes big mistakes along the way.

— Neal Adams

“The final way to respond to the difficulty of lending against intangibles is the most radical. It is for businesses to change their finance…

— Jonathan Haskel

Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.

— Robert Reich

Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't…

— James P. Gorman