Thoughts of Banks Quotes in English

Money is a servant to politicians and the country. But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

- Oliver Kemper

Banks are to the economy what the heart is to the human body. They cycle necessary capital through the whole, and they are barely noticed until pressure, necessity, or crises.

- Hendrith Smith

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.

Adam Smith

Banks are nothing but old fashioned money lenders. They encourage you to borrow, to get in debt, and when you can't pay back the loan they take your home away. At least a money lender only breaks your legs.

- Karl Wiggins

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam. Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.

- Chris Martenson

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

- Joseph E. Stiglitz

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

- Thomas Jefferson

Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.

- Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

- Thomas Jefferson

Bank Quotes List and Sayings

I have always been afraid of banks.

- Andrew Jackson

When the paper money goes the banks will become the gods of man.

- Bank Quotes by Anthony T. Hincks

Banking is a branch of the information business.

- Walter Wriston Quotation

Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.

- Bank Quotes in English by Kenneth Eade

You don't make money from peace. You make money from wars!

- A Quotation From Anthony T.Hincks

A bank is but honesty with a premium. At least this is what it is supposed to be.

- Lamine Pearlheart

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Felix Rohatyn

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.

- Ralph George Hawtrey

Nobody knows banking better than I do.

Donald Trump

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

- Mary Parker Follet

The greedy loathe wars, but not as much as they love profit.

- Anthony T.Hincks

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

- Robert W. Hemphill

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

Warren Buffett

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

Charlie Munger

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

- James A. Garfield

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

- John C. Danforth

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

- Abraham Lincoln *

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

Muhammad Yunus

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

William Paterson

The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Proverbs 22:7

Bank Sayings in English

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

- Bertolt Brecht

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

- Thomas Jefferson

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

Michael Lewis

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.

- Jaffar Hussein

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

William Jennings Bryan

So I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Muhammad Yunus

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

- Charlie Munger

The banking institutions, my friends, are sailing under false colours. They are running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. And we should never forget it.

- Karl Wiggins

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Lord Longford

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

Woody Allen

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

- John Gotti

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

James Buchan

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

Robin Sacredfire

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

J. Edgar Hoover

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

- Christopher Rice

Giving the banks free interest loans is like the government subsidizing the banks. That's crazy!

- Kenneth Eade

There are two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Will Rogers

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

- Mary Kay Ash

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man. Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

- John Steinbeck

Don't trust banks, trust math.

- Santosh Kalwar Download or Share

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

- Banks Quotes by Bob Hope Download or Share

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

- E. Joseph Cossman Download or Share

I don't have bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

- Paula Poundstone Download or Share

We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.

- Anthony T Hincks Download or Share

If we behaved like banks we woluld be charged with fraud.

- Jacque Fresco Download or Share

Good Banking is produced not by good laws, but by good bankers.

- Hartley Withers Download or Share

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

- Banks Quote by Mark Twain Download or Share

In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.

- David Alejandro Fearnhead Download or Share

Bank Quotation in English

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them.

Martin Mayer

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

James Buchan

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world out of six billion people, more than three billion. Do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Muhammad Yunus

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 Thoughts

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

- E. Joseph Cossman

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

Dan Quayle

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man. Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

John Steinbeck

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.

Harvey Goldsmith

My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a bank.

- Bill Maher

The sound banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

- John Maynard Keynes

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.

- Felix Rohatyn

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

The fear among bankers is that there’s this guy out there, and he can do whatever he wants, and nobody can stop him, I would be afraid too if I were a bank.

- Dick Bove

Advances in digital banking will not eliminate the branch, they will allow for more creative ways to help clients achieve financial wellbeing.

- Hendrith Smith

There are people in Europe that struggled during an entire life to save as much as possible in banks that bankrupted and left them homeless.

- Robin Sacredfire