Top 100 Quotes About Banking
#1. Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is a new model of banking based on cloud computing structures of digital banking.
Chris Skinner
#2. 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.
Charles August Lindbergh
#3. Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
Alan Greenspan
#4. Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#5. Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.
Judd Gregg
#6. One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.
Jeanne W. Ross
#7. When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.).
Jonathan Haidt
#8. There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
Frederick Soddy
#9. Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
Ron Lewis
#10. Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#11. loved you very much. I might say that of Paris; my memories are heaped there. Somehow I was constantly returning - the train gliding through the endless suburbs or in blue air the airplane banking as, face close to the window, I looked down.
Vintage
#12. Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.
Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.
And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.
Chris Martenson
#13. We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium ... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness ... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.
Thomas Jefferson
#14. The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.
Stephen Colbert
#15. The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.
Nicos Anastasiades
#16. The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
William Jennings Bryan
#17. Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
Wilbur Ross
#18. I dream of a Digital India where mobile and e-Banking ensures Financial Inclusion.
Narendra Modi
#19. Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.
John Major
#20. 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.
Lucy Powell
#21. When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.
Peer Steinbruck
#22. I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.
Mitt Romney
#23. I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
Uday Kotak
#24. For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
Gary Weiss
#25. 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 I shall die abhorring.
John Adams
#26. Our church had an awkward beginning. We grew out of a movement that was dead wrong about the dates and times of Jesus' return. But out of that great disappointment and gross error grew a people devoted to voraciously studying the Bible and banking on being with Jesus as soon as He would allow.
Nathan Brown
#27. Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.
Paulo Freire
#28. I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.
Stephanie Mills
#29. Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
Tom Ford
#30. We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.
John Redwood
#31. My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
Danielle De Niese
#32. The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.
Curtis Bean Dall
#33. Central banking has become the new central planning. Under the old central planning, government attempted to manage production and the supply of goods and services. Under the new central planning, the Fed attempts to manage the financial system and the supply and allocation of credit.
Anonymous
#35. Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
Frances O'Grady
#36. Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression.
Jim Powell
#37. It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.
Henry Paulson
#38. Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting directing, whatever it is you have to stay true to who you are because they hired you to do what you do.
Anne Fletcher
#39. Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
Hanya Yanagihara
#40. People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.
Elizabeth Warren
#41. It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
Paulo Freire
#42. Get the
Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life
of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot
pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines.
Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the
nation.
Eustace Mullins
#43. They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.
Joseph Stiglitz
#44. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
#45. The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.
Betty Dodson
#46. Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.
Uday Kotak
#47. Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.
Thomas Jefferson
#48. I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.
Anne Robinson
#49. I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.
Philipp Meyer
#50. My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
H. G. Bissinger
#51. You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.
Nouriel Roubini
#52. Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.
Ben Bernanke
#53. A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
Michael Lewis
#54. Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
Elizabeth Warren
#55. At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
Felix Rohatyn
#56. 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.
Suze Orman
#57. Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
Barry Eichengreen
#58. Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
Sally Jewell
#59. Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
Ben Bernanke
#60. If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.
Peter Thiel
#61. Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Michael Ovitz
#62. Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
Will Rogers
#63. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
#64. The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
Arianna Huffington
#65. After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
Vladimir Potanin
#66. In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
Julia Child
#67. There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.
Wilbur Ross
#68. In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.
Roger Altman
#69. Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.
Max Lucado
#70. It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Ron Paul
#71. The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.
David Icke
#72. I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
Amish Tripathi
#73. The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,
Michel Chossudovsky
#74. 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.
Ally Carter
#75. Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn't got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry
Louise Wilson
#76. Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it.
Virginia Cowles
#77. Government-imposed loan standards precipitated a banking crisis, which was solved by a government bailout and control of the banks. As a result, little by little, fewer and fewer are making more and more banking decisions. Government
David Jeremiah
#78. You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
Judd Gregg
#80. I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.
Carol Roth
#81. It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
Adam Smith
#82. 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.
James Surowiecki
#83. Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual
and unusually useful
format.
John Steele Gordon
#84. There is no legislation
I care not what it is
tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.
William Howard Taft
#85. This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].
Costa-Gavras
#86. There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
Will Rogers
#87. After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.
Joe Flanigan
#88. I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.
Anne Robinson
#89. The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#90. If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
Manmohan Singh
#91. 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.
Bill Frist
#92. Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.
Hans F. Sennholz
#93. In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider
#94. It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out.
Solange Nicole
#95. Banking doesn't involve fraud, banking IS fraud.
(from video by Paul Grignon done for United Financial Consumers (2002) )
(Added to goodreads by Mike Tobin)
Tim Madden
#96. So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
Sanjay Kumar
#97. I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.
Nigel Farage
#98. You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
Andrew Jackson
#99. The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
Ron Chernow
#100. Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.
Warren Buffett
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