Banking Quotes

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

Dangerous, Standing, Liberties

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

Morning, Tomorrow, Revolution

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

Time, Said, Hour

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
Josiah Stamp

Born, Sin, Conceived

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

Life, Time, Long

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Ralph Nader

Car, Wanted, Name

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

Country, Greater, Industry

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

Making, Stay, Pay

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
Jarvis Cocker

Makes, Afterlife, Palatable

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
John Podhoretz

Time, Government, Nothing

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

Government, Finance, Happen

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

Government, Failure, Bad

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

Balance, Won, Financial

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

Women, Nice, Mother

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.
James Buchan

Money, Heart, Cannot

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.
Josiah Stamp

Money, Nothing, System

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Lucy Powell

Faith, Long, Growth

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
will.i.am

Technology, Write, Read

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

Growing, Tax, Accounting

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.
Dick Cheney

Government, Care, Play

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.
George Osborne

Change, Government, Mistakes

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

Crisis, Political, Living

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

Business, Down, Try

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
Vince Cable

Working, Financial, Economy

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
Vince Cable

Crisis, Personal, Debt

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
Mike Huckabee

Nature, Story, Retired

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

Crisis, Happen, Value

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

Faith, Age, Medical

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Work, Help, Down

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
Mark Skousen

Good, Technology, Simple

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