Quotes about Banking

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.

Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.

In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs and we know now that a government by organized money is just as bad as a government by organized mob.

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

India has a very young population which is comfortable doing business on a screen than do it one on one with a banking executive. They want quick fulfilment of desires, and may not have the time to go to a bank to get things done. Many of them are comfortable working from home.

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.

No One Is a Relativist at the Bank