Banking Quotes

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

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, is inherently risky.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

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

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.

[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

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 we were well-off.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

Money never declines. Money just moves.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

In Africa it's difficult to carry the money, it's difficult to have a banking system with tellers, with distribution of cash. So they are using their mobile phones.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.