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Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. -- Josiah Stamp
I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time. -- Steven Wright
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. -- Josiah Stamp
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
Banking is necessary - banks are not. -- Bill Gates
Banking is a branch of the information business. -- Walter Wriston
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb. -- Warren Buffett
Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes. -- Mark Skousen
I dream of a Digital India where mobile and e-Banking ensures Financial Inclusion. -- Narendra Modi
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail, -- Sally Jewell
[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics. -- David Duke
I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time. -- Steven Wright
New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools. -- Orrin Woodward
Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. -- J. Paul Getty
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. -- Ben Bernanke
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. -- Wilbur Ross
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. -- Tom Ford
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again -- Jean Baudrillard
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. -- George Washington
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. -- Nigel Farage
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. -- Josiah Stamp
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
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. -- Adam McKay
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -- Robert Frost
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
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. -- Eustace Mullins
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance. -- James Madison
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 -- Salmon P. Chase
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
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States. -- Thomas Woods
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -- Thomas Jefferson
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? -- Jean Baudrillard
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
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. -- Abraham Lincoln
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. -- Frederick W. Smith
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. -- Ralph Nader
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. -- Lucy Powell
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. -- Janet Yellen
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
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS. -- Michio Kaku
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
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed. -- George Soros
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. -- Si Robertson
Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that. -- Chetan Bhagat
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. -- Philip K. Dick
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
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. -- Smedley Butler
The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media. -- Tina Brown
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
Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives. -- Felix Rohatyn
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
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce. -- John Collison
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. -- Stephen Harper
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate. -- Lysander Spooner
Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm. -- Barton Gellman
Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. -- Peter Diamandis
The world needs banking but it does not need banks. -- Bill Gates
There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. -- Charlie Munger
Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have? -- Anat R. Admati
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). -- Alan Watts
Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. -- Hans F. Sennholz
I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking. -- Stephanie Mills
At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships. -- Felix Rohatyn
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. -- Walter Bagehot
Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose! -- Max Keiser
In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell. -- Patrick Dixon
Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with. -- Big Boi
The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets. -- Anshu Jain
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion. -- Bill Vaughan
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. -- Elizabeth Warren
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. -- Alan Greenspan
The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis. -- Anat R. Admati
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. -- Michio Kaku
In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. -- Elizabeth Warren
Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing. -- Philipp Meyer
Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today. -- Mervyn King
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. -- Paulo Freire
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. -- William Kirby
The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism. -- Anthony Scaramucci
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. -- Will Rogers
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. -- Ron Paul
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. -- Jim Parrack
Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business. -- Bob Saget
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. -- Jarvis Cocker
I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years. -- Nigel Farage
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me. -- Vikram Chatwal
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking. -- Michael Ovitz
I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven. -- Al Franken
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. -- Michael Lewis
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk. -- Christine Lagarde
The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits. -- William Jennings Bryan
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking. -- William Proxmire
I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. -- Mitt Romney
There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed. -- Mark Zandi
I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet. -- Anne Robinson
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. -- Frederick Soddy
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, -- Michel Chossudovsky
Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger. -- Mark Winne
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. -- Vince Cable
If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan. -- Kenneth Fisher
I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe. -- Jerome Kerviel
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
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. -- Thomas Jefferson
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. -- Charles Kettering
You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation. -- Judd Gregg
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. -- Muhammad Yunus
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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