Banking Quotes - Page 2

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.

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.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

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.

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.

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.

Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose!

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.