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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs. -- Vijay Mallya
Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans. -- Carl Webb
Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice. -- Ronald Biggs
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. -- Ralph George Hawtrey
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. -- Herve Falciani
Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions. -- Narendra Modi
I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. -- Lauren Conrad
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. -- Giannina Braschi
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. -- Ben Bernanke
Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not. -- Joshua Homme
Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes. -- Jim Hightower
Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy. -- Ben Bernanke
I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks. -- Nicos Anastasiades
In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. -- Paul Watson
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally. -- Daniel Kahneman
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. -- Paul Theroux
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States. -- Jerzy Kosinski
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it. -- Dolly Parton
Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some. -- Lisa Randall
Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest. -- Jamie Dimon
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay. -- Michael Hudson
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. -- Justin Welby
I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... -- Charli XCX
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? -- Alan King
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. -- John Adams
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
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. -- Elizabeth Warren
I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring. -- Gillian Jacobs
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities. -- Sebastian Faulks
Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle. -- Mark Steel
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. -- Louis Thomas McFadden
Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier. Banks didn't do that -- Jamie Dimon
I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable. -- Adriana Lima
George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. -- Walt Disney Company
The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank. -- John Grant
Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion. -- Bob Diamond
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. -- Martin Van Buren
The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences. -- Georges Cuvier
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. -- Knute Nelson
I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. -- George Saunders
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day. -- Julie Bowen
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. -- Frank Abagnale
I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame. -- Allan Ray
Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew longer and wider and ate the black like a fungus until the darkness was gone and there was light and it was day. -- Matthew McBride
I have always been afraid of banks. -- Andrew Jackson
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -- Charles R. Swindoll
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. -- Sitting Bull
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! -- John Buchanan Robinson
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. -- Lord Acton
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. -- Henry Timrod
I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it. -- Vir Das
Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. -- Michael Moore
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. -- Vinoba Bhave
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. -- Mary Kay Ash
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. -- Josiah Stamp
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. -- Michael Moore
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. -- Alex Berenson
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. -- Charles Lyell
At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things. -- Peter Diamandis
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
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007. -- James Surowiecki
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. -- Noam Chomsky
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. -- Allan Savory
The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. -- Michael Moore
The banks run the place. -- Collin Peterson
Time is a river without banks. -- Marc Chagall
I'm not afraid of having big banks. -- Kevin Warsh
Banking is necessary - banks are not. -- Bill Gates
A river without banks is a large puddle. -- Ken Blanchard
Small banks that lend to consumers are fine. -- Michael Hudson
I have a responsibility to banks, to shareholders. -- Arnon Milchan
I rob banks because that's where the money is. -- Willie Sutton
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Mediobanca is undervalued but less undervalued than other banks. -- Ennio Doris
I rob banks for a living, what do you do? -- John Dillinger
I rob banks for a living. What do you do? -- John Dillinger
The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation. -- Michael Kumhof
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. -- Domenico Cieri
The world needs banking but it does not need banks. -- Bill Gates
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world. -- David Stockman
Tears are just the overflow from the river-banks of the heart. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
What can you do in order to save your own banks? -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry. -- Rick Falkvinge
The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks. -- Collin Peterson
The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. -- Paul Volcker
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. -- Wendell H. Ford
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. -- Francis Parkman
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. -- Richard Ford
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. -- Scott D. Cook
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. -- Scott D. Cook
Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services. -- Michael Hudson
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. -- William Shenstone
The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest. -- Michael Hudson
The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. -- William Petty
What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks. -- Bob Hoskins
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. -- David Rockefeller
Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. -- Robert Hughes
If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks. -- Bernie Sanders
When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed. -- Mitt Romney
To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece. -- Michael Hudson
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks. -- Spencer Bachus
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. -- Alain-Rene Lesage
In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed. -- Michael Hudson
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We need to repeal Dodd-Frank [act]. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks. -- Marco Rubio
It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks -- Marc Faber
Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective. -- Rush Limbaugh
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. -- Toshihiko Fukui
When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts. -- Mervyn King
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. -- Robert Reich

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