B Quotes
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“Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.”
“Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.”
“Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.”
“Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.”
“Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.”
“Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.”
“Banks, credit unions, and non-bank private lenders are common corporate lenders. But when you’re leading a company, it’s important to think carefully about which of these will be the right partner for your lending needs. Having the right lender may be as important as obtaining the right amount of money.”
“Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.”
Source: Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?
“Banks don’t care if you borrow, beg or steal so long as you meet their excruciating payment schedule else your title to your collateral is forfeited.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.”
“Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think he was referring to some of the European banks shedding assets, and the big buyers are probably not going to be big American banks. Someone like Blackstone may have a very good chance to buy those assets, leverage them, borrow up a little bit, and do something good there.”
“Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.”
“Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?”
“Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.”
“Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change.”
“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.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.”
“Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.”
“Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.”
“Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.”
“Banks once offered savings accounts yielding 5% annual interest, taxable. In today's economic climate, banks offer 0% interest. You can choose the Bank of Bitcoin, offering a savings account currently yielding more than 100% annual interest, tax deferred. The choice is yours to make.”
“Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.”
“Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.”
Source: State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren
“Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.”
“Banks were once an extremely valuable part of the economy and did a lot of good in advancing civilization. Banks played a pivotal role in financing big projects like roads, bridges, factories, stadiums, etc. Banks were to the economy what the heart is to the human body. But that has ended.
Traditional banks have become extra toxic entities in the economy. It’s partially the fault of excessive government regulations that have made everything dysfunctional and it’s partially the fault of greedy bankers putting profits above customers and shareholders above society... But nonetheless, banks today offer very little benefit to their clients. They pay barely anything in interest. They offer barely anything in growth. They move money too slowly. They’re too restrictive. They’re selling the same boring products and services they did a hundred years ago. And they have too much power over peoples accounts. Soon, the many new companies and applications that emerge on the Ethereum infrastructure will eliminate the need for traditional banks and eliminate their value proposition by providing people with superior value. Everything from growth to asset management to lending can be done even better on the Ethereum infrastructure by anyone.”
“Banks will only give you a mortgage if you are low risk and if anything goes wrong in the future, they will throw you out onto the street!”
“Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.”
“Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.”
“Banksie, hi. What you up to?'
'Well, I'm going to be writing a book about whisky.'
'You're what?'
'I'm going to be writing a book about whisky. I've been, umm, you know, commissioned. To write a book about it. About whisky. Malt whisky, actually.'
'You're writing a book about whisky?'
'Yeah. It means I have to go all over Scotland, driving mostly, but taking other types of transport - ferries, planes, trains, that sort of thing - visiting distilleries and tasting malt whisky. With expenses, obviously.'
'You serious?'
'Course I'm serious!'
'Really?'
'Oh yeah.'
'... Do you need any help with this?”
Source: Raw Spirit
“Bankta uyuyan bir aç fakire yardım etmek istiyorsan, onu sakın uyandırma; yiyeceği bankın üstüne koy, biraz da para bırak ve arkana bakmadan oradan ayrıl!”
“Banned and lionised by drunken cactuses,
eternally sanguine in black and white, raw like the majestic sex on her ruby red deathswoman mouth, silver-coated terror in her eyes.”
Source: Seraphic Addiction
“Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.”
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.”
“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
“Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.”
“Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.”
“Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.”
“Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.”
“Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.”
“Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.”
“Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.”
“Banning of the concept of biological sex has turned out only to apply to the category of 'woman'. When 'trans' and 'cis' are to be defined, the biological dichotomy between sexes resurfaces and reigns unfettered - now it must no longer be questioned. It is no longer fluid and shifting but fixed. A biological woman cannot decide to call herself a trans woman: to be one, she must have been born a man. She is dispatched to the category cis woman and becomes privileged as a consequence. Unless of course she decides to change sex and become a trans man - in which she will be considered privileged because she is a man. In this new gender structure, no platform exists from which women can speak without being labelled privileged.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.”
“Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.”
“Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response.”
“Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.”
Source: Faceless The Only Way Out
“Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically disenfranchised in a place like France in many of those neighborhoods, and make them say, ah, ISIS's message is true and real.”
“Banning the word bossy doesn’t promote anything, especially leadership. In fact, it would actually show that being bossy works. We don’t need to ban the word bossy, we need to get rid of bossiness. The best way to do that? Be a real leader. How poetic.”
“Bannister's mile remains a touchstone in the history of athletics not because Bannister set an unbreachable record - currently, the fastest mile is a good fifteen seconds under Bannister's. For generations, four minutes was thought to represent an intrinsic physiological limit, as if muscles could inherently not be made to move any faster or lungs breathe any deeper. What Bannister proved was that such notions about intrinsic boundaries are mythical. What he broke permanently was not a limit, but the idea of limits.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.”