Banking Quotes - Page 17

• There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Fire, Politics

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• What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.

  Rebecca Mead

  Children, Book, Identity

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books

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• Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Grew, Happens, Things Happen

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• Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

  Sally Jewell

  Giving, Glimpse, Succeed

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• I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Bankers, Heroin

  "Berkshire's Munger: High-Frequency Trading 'Basically Evil'". www.cnbc.com. May 3, 2013.

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