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“Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.”

Stupid Waste Banking Stupid Things

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.”

Want Feels Wells Mean Sometimes Certain Fall Grows Growth Company Too Much Risk Pressure Excess Clients Traps Ceo Banking Advise Business Growth

Author:Jamie Dimon

“Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.”

Ifs Knows Facts Gone Prove Worthy Credit Banking Bankers

Author:Walter Bagehot

“Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.”

Giving Company Failing Succeed Glimpse Banking

Author:Sally Jewell

“As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.”

People Government Millions Week Security Ten Office Hundred Dollars Rate Credit Critical Factories Currency Reserves Banking Million Dollars Famine Hiring Federal Reserve Central Banking

Author:Eustace Mullins

“What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.”

Children Book Identity Mines Serious Reader Banking Your Favorite Right Words Favorite Book Verification Middlemarch

Book:My Life in Middlemarch

Source: My Life in Middlemarch

“Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.”

“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”

Eye Causes Citizens Distress Banking Banking System

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”

“Meyer [sic] Amschel Rothschild, who founded the great international banking house of Rothschild which, through its affiliation with the European Central Banks, still dominates the financial policies of practically every country in the world, said: ‘Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.’”

World Said Stills Country Care Law House Nations Issues Policy Financial International Permit I Care Banking Central Banks Affiliation Rothschild

Author:Mayer Amschel Rothschild

“Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes.”

Should Kids Discipline Aspect Environmental Shoes Protection These Days Ties Things To Do Banking Garbage Slides Pondering Public Education Environmental Protection American Society

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.”

Years Has Beens Made Lasts Term Inspiring Five Progress Economic Unions Five Years Massive Banking Last Five Years

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.”

Important Inspiring Roles Economic Shadow Assets Toxic Cleaning Banking Cleaning Up

Author:Anshu Jain

“Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.”

Wells Style Return Remains Investment Operations Boards Exception Approval Ownership Reserves Banking Sloth Cornerstones Federal Reserve Lethargy Fargo Wells Fargo

Author:Warren Buffett

“The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today”

“The world needs banking but it does not need banks.”

World Needs Doe Banking

Author:Bill Gates

“I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”

Two Enemy Fronts Army Southern Banking Foe Bankers Federal Reserve Central Banks Central Banking

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.”

Opportunity Term Poor Poverty Economy Economic Fairs Producers Banking Connecting Reducing Global Economy Reducing Poverty

Author:Leila Janah

“Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose!”

Loses Banking Banking System

Author:Max Keiser

“It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.”

Government Difficult Conditions Granted Banking Interference

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James Loeb, of the Kuhn-Loeb banking family. Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, were banking partners of William Rockefeller, and both families were responsible for setting up the American Harriman family - also movers and shakers in eugenics - in business.”

Study Responsible Partners Setting Settings Banking Institute Eugenics Shakers Movers And Shakers

Book:Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

Source: Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.”

“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.”

Source: The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.”

Way Dog Cat Agree Sells Dollars Corruption Billions Managers Pet Owners Fund Assets Banking Scandal Hedge Fund

Author:Michael Lewis

“Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.”

World Industry Solve Arguing Regulation Banking Supervision

Author:Wilbur Ross

“Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.”

Bigs Benefits Banking

Author:Big Boi

“There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.”

Has Beens Country Used Social Economic Crisis Environmental Financial Protected Banking Financial Crisis Economic Crisis Environmental Crisis Banking Crisis

Author:Jean-Francois Cope

“People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it.”

People Ifs States America Political Loses United United States Taxes Trade Congress Healthcare Incapable United States Of America Legislation Banking Funding

Author:Dylan Ratigan

“Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.”

Information Treasure Finance Unusual Banking Format Genealogy

Author:John Steele Gordon

“This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to-how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.”

Littles Feelings Age Found Lonely Witness Weekend Banking Flexible Brides Single Women

Author:Laura Dave

“From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.”

Character Culture Social Justice Blood Modern Social Justice Jazz African American Contribution Banking Subway National Culture

Author:Bill Frist

“My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country”

Country Interest Mistake Built Agency Passages Banking Monopoly Promoting Bankers Monetary System Usury Bankers And Banks

Author:Salmon P. Chase

“The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.”

Term Effects Balance International Tendencies Banking Short Term Payment Cushions Erratic Disequilibrium

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.”

Age Turns Imagination Century Figures Banking Bankers Legendary Colossal Behemoth Overshadowing

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.”

Doe Pay Crime Victim Prison Deeds Finance Realms Modest Banking Foul Prison Time

Author:William Greider

“I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.”

Left Chance Alive Capitalism Garden Collapse Banking Machinery Staying Alive Banking System

Author:Margaret Drabble

“There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.”

Feels Looks Worst Industry Behavior Evidence Capitalism Rewards Corners Behave Prime Banking Ruthless Psychopathic

Author:Jon Ronson

“Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.”

Careers Path Investment I Realized Banking Investment Banking

Author:Vikram Chatwal

“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.”

People Courses Left Economy Masters Majors Crisis Property Financial Debt Vulnerable Servant Britain Labour Bubbles Banking Predecessors Financial Crisis Banking Crisis

Author:Vince Cable

“Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.”

Mean Political Europe Structure Unions Banking Parliament Legislature Monetary Prerogative

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.”

Years Sometimes Done Morning Honest Missing Investment Being Honest Banking Tempting Investment Banking

Author:Chetan Bhagat

“So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.”

Made Country Worry Worst Europe Responsible Crisis Financial Wave Currents Officials Germany Collapse Banking Remarks Skeptical Provoked Austria Regulators Banking Crisis

Author:Martin Walker

“The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.”

People Thinking Seems Realizing Clear One Thing Built China Chinese Fragile Banking Banking System Quicksand

Author:James Chanos

“After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.”

Jobs College Variety Enjoyed Graduates Banking College Graduates

Author:Joe Flanigan

“Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.”

Bigs Community Effects Safety Protection Consumers Banking Soundness Consumer Protection

Author:Judd Gregg

“You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.”

Purpose Safety Primaries Agency Regulation Reserves Banking Federal Reserve Soundness

Author:Judd Gregg

“North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.”

Country States Home Community Proud Protect Responsible Institutions Financial Consumers Distinction Regulation Banking Carolina North Carolina Financial Institutions Financial Regulation

Author:Kay Hagan

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