Banking Quotes

“There is no better investment than in the stocks of a respectable bank.”

“Trust is the sine qua non of the banking business.”

“They obtain it only through the bank, which, in relation to them, represents the owner of the capital.”

“I believe that banking...should have the courage and the common sense to finance the future.”

“A country that has a great banking system is not a country that has banks that are not going to fail.”

“A sovereign country can't go bankrupt.”

“Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which expand and contract aggressively, irrespective of the needs of business.”

“It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.”

“This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”

“The central bank is an instrument of the state, and its purpose is to finance the state's deficits.”

“Banking is a very peculiar business. We are investing other people's money and we have to be fantastically careful.”

“A commercial banker is a person who is willing to lend you money provided you can prove you don't need it.”