Quotes About Banking

I believe that fractional-reserve banking is disastrous both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions of the market economy.

The fact that the Vatican has its own banking system proves that money is not the root of all evil.

For most of the nineteenth century, N M Rothschild was part of the biggest bank in the world which dominated the international bond market. For a contemporary equivalent, one has to imagine a merger between Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, J P Morgan and probably Goldman Sachs too – as well, perhaps, as the International Monetary Fund, given the nineteen-century Rothschild's role in stabilising the finances of numerous governments.

Sensible countries should treat banks as if they were hostile foreign powers, and enable, protect and honour those who reveal the threats they pose to wider society.

The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "It is a thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks," Dizzy sermonized with contagious certainty.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

podemos decir que los "chulos bancarios" son tan despreciables como los proxenetas comunes.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

No web tracking system I've ever seen gives perfectly accurate numbers. But dollars in the bank—that's a pretty reliable measure.

Defying its narrow name, what the late nineteenth century called the industrial revolution went far beyond creating modern industry; it altered out of all recognition commerce, banking, transport, communications, administration, medicine, the relations of men and women and employers and employees. It was a revolution in knowledge that the Victorian century would master more completely, and would need more urgently, than any of its predecessors.