A people. . . who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.
Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.
I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.
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.
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.
Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.
[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.
Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.
The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.
Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!
I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.
The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks.
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.