Banks Quotes - page 16

The relationship of the big Wall Street banks to the high frequency traders, when you think about it, was a bit like the relationship of the entire society to the big Wall Street banks. When things went well, the HFT guys took most of the gains; when things went badly, the HFT guys vanished and the banks took the losses. (Michael Lewis (author))
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess. View quote
Irving Fisher
For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and our revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
That crystal river keeps its pools of blue water free from all stain above its shallow bed, and slowly draws along its fair stream of greenish hue. One would scarce believe it was moving; so softly along its shady banks, while the birds sing sweet in rivalry, it leads along in a shining flood its waters that tempt to sleep. View quote
Silius Italicus
The organ banks would be supplied for years. View quote
Larry Niven
From the beginning there had been a revolutionary group. Its name had changed several times, and Matt had no idea what it was now. He had never known a revolutionary. He had no particular desire to be one. They accomplished nothing, except to fill the Hospital's organ banks. View quote
Larry Niven
Any citizen, with the help of the organ banks, can live as long as it takes his central nervous system to wear out. View quote
Larry Niven
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
History has been too often a picture of the bloody stream. The history of civilization is a record of what happened on the banks. View quote
Will Durant
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. View quote
Jack Welch
Egypt has been called the Gift of the Nile. Once every year the river overflows its banks, depositing a layer of rich alluvial soil on the parched ground. Then it recedes and soon the whole countryside, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with Egyptologists. (Will Cuppy)
All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt and using it to buy long term debt. In finance, we tend to think that's a neutral activity, even though those stimulus programs are huge. View quote
Eugene Fama
The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks. View quote
Bernie Sanders
It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. View quote
Julian Assange
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. View quote
Elizabeth Warren
‘The people' have in fact done everything that is done; they built the houses and roads and railroads and telephones and planes, they organized world‐wide cooperative institutions-the oil companies, the banks-and the postal services, and the militia companies, and the schools-what didn't ‘the people' do? What happens is that, after they do it, The Government takes it. The Government takes the roads, the postal service, the systems of communication, the banks, the markets, the stock exchanges, the insurance companies, the schools, the militia, the building trades, the telegraph and telephones, the radios, after ‘the people' have done all these things for themselves. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" View quote
Muhammad Yunus
The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. View quote
Sean Penn
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them. View quote
Matt Taibbi
If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat. (Matt Taibbi)
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement. View quote
Matt Taibbi
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. View quote
Matt Taibbi
Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing. View quote
Pope Francis