Banking Quotes

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

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

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

I dream of a Digital India where mobile and e-Banking ensures Financial Inclusion.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

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

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

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.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose!

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.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on.

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.

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.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

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.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).