Quotes About Banking

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

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

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

I do sense that the financial system is under the gun. In order to keep our system and economies moving globally, there's the need to extend new money.

I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.

The idea behind stamped money is sound.

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."

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.

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

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)