Banking Quotes

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

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.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

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.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.

The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

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.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

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.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.

And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.

Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Get into Investment Banking

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money.