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  • With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.

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

    People   Banking   May  
    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.473
  • I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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

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

    Martin Mayer (1990). “The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry”, Scribner Book Company
  • Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

  • In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

    War   Loss   Government  
    "The creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.
  • To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security. It means that you'll essentially have to abolish government and turn it over to the banking system to run, with an idea that the role of governments is to extract income from the economy to pay to the bondholders and the banks.

    Running   Mean   Loss  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

    Banking   Today   Profit  
  • Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

    Business   Men   Careers  
    John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”
  • I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.

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

    Believe   Long   People  
  • Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

  • It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

    Flames   Voice   Greek  
    Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
  • What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

    Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.204, A&C Black
  • John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

    Media   Names   Oil  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: bleacherreport.com
  • The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

    "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.
  • You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

    "Jamie Dimon’s World" by Michael Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2009.
  • It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

    Men   Hands   Gold  
  • By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

    Taken   Mean   Hands  
    Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3”, International Pub
  • I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.

    "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.
  • We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.

    "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.
  • 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.

    Fun   Hair   Wind  
    James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company
  • The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

    Real   Cities   Names  
    "Betty Dodson’s Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.
  • 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.

    "Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2008.
  • They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.

  • Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

    Past   Bankers   Banking  
  • 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.

    Water   Storm   Too Late  
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