Josiah Stamp Quotes

United Kingdom, Economist
June 21, 1880 – April, 16, 1941.

Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, GCB, GBE, FBA was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Also known as Civil Servant, Writer, Banker, Businessman

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

Josiah Stamp
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Josiah Stamp

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

Josiah Stamp
- Credit
- Slaves
- Banks
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Josiah Stamp
- Empty
- Glass
- Full
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Josiah Stamp
- Sin
- Banking
- Iniquity
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

Josiah Stamp
- Money
- Nothing
- Banking
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Josiah Stamp