Banking Quotes - Page 4

• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  Jean Baudrillard

  Safe Keeping, Bankers, Sin

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

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• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Motivation

  "he Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing". Book by Pat Dorsey & ‎Joe Mansueto, p. 234, 2003.

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• The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Democracies Have, Government

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  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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

  George Washington

  People, May, Spirit

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.473

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• If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, America, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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

  Nigel Farage

  Government, Greed, Regulation

  "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Money

  New Yorker, 5 Nov. 1973

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Power, Government

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

  Walter Bagehot

  Bankers, Gone, Credit

  "Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market".

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• 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.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Cost, Credit

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• The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

  Josiah Stamp

  Hands, Historical, Bankers

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

  Big Boi

  Benefits, Bigs

  "Grammy Award-Winning Rapper Big Boi: I Didn't Vote For Obama - I'm A Libertarian". Interview with Alyona Minkovski, www.newsbusters.org. January 12, 2013.

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• What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Breaking Silence, Literature, Bankers

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.204, A&C Black

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• They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, People, Bankers

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  Irving Fisher

  Historical, Promise, Bankers

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

  Mervyn King

  Today, Way, Worst

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Adventure, Caution, Commerce

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• The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Comforting, World

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• I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

  Jean Baudrillard

  Safe Keeping, Bankers, Deposits

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

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• Banking is necessary - banks are not.

  Bill Gates

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• I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Believe, Afterlife

  "This much I know". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

  Frederick Soddy

  Today, Profit, Whole

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