Louise Wilson
Fashion Designer
"Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry"
Banking quotes
Banking
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Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"The world needs banking but it does not need banks."
John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
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"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
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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."
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"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."
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"Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance."
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"Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today."
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"Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring."
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"You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on."
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"There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking."
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"Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony"
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"... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry)."
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"Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world."
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"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?"
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"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again"
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"It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings."
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"The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens."
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"The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system"
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"Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator."
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"Banking is necessary - banks are not."
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"If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you."
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"The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks."
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