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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it. — Virginia Cowles

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. — Lucy Powell

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. — Frederick W. Smith

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me. — Vikram Chatwal

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking. — Michael Ovitz

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the 1990s, the ratio of buy to sell recommendations climbed to 100 to 1, particularly for brokerage firms with large investment banking businesses. — Burton G. Malkiel

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes. — Mark Skousen

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. — John Maynard Keynes

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. — Tom Ford

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

Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer. — Liaquat Ahamed

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them. — Jamie Dimon

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

Banking is a branch of the information business. — Walter Wriston

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing. — Philipp Meyer

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed. — Mark Zandi

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. — Josiah Stamp

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders. — Bob Diamond

When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.). — Jonathan Haidt

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years. — Nigel Farage

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say — Michael Lewis

In many parts of India, chit funds address gaps left by the traditional banking sector. — R. Vaidyanathan

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

Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP. — Niall Ferguson

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time. — Steven Wright

My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres. — Danielle De Niese

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit. — John Rogers

and tightly coupled than the banking system; Charles — Tim Harford

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are. — Will Rogers

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking. — Stephanie Mills

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. — Muhammad Yunus

I happen to know a bit about banking. — Justin Welby

I am with the Hot Sexy Banking Corporation. As all the other banks are going bust, they are just getting bustier. — Robert Clark

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

I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson

I've had a lot of different companies. I've been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things. — Tom Benson

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

Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system. — Robin Sacredfire

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks. — Judd Gregg

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. — Ralph Nader

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. — Paulo Freire

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

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking. — Justin Welby

Banking is necessary - banks are not. — Bill Gates

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system. — Ben Bernanke

Time is a valuable wealth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet. — Anne Robinson

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny ... — John C. Danforth

I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?' — Uday Kotak

It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out. — Solange Nicole

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance. — Martin Mayer

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I dream of a Digital India where mobile and e-Banking ensures Financial Inclusion. — Narendra Modi

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

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

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business. — Bob Saget

Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is a new model of banking based on cloud computing structures of digital banking. — Chris Skinner

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union. — Christine Lagarde

Banking is no longer somewhere you go, it's something you do. — Brett King

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. — John Maynard Keynes

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

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

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans. — Carl Webb

Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system. — Louis Farrakhan

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good. — Adam McKay

[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back. — Robert G. Wilmers

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. — Peter Diamandis

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go! — John G. Stumpf

If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan. — Kenneth Fisher

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

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul

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

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

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done — John Maynard Keynes

The world needs banking but it does not need banks. — Bill Gates

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot

Keep your eyes on the price when spending, don't regret later to find that you have nothing for tomorrow. — Auliq Ice

And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we. — Penny Lernoux

The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility. — Ron Paul

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. — Elizabeth Warren

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. — Mitt Romney

Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts

Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. — Ezra Pound

In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes. — Robert G. Wilmers

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with. — Anne Robinson

the main source of profitableness of established banking is the smallness of requisite capital."4 — Vivek Kaul

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb. — Warren Buffett

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. — Alan Greenspan

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses. — Sanford I. Weill

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell