Bank Quotes
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If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan transaction, for the simple reason that the lender could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can do. Only commercial banks and trust companies can lend money that they manufacture by lending it.
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I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.
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A lot of people don't love their bank.
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
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I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.
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There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how - the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much.
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AT&T - it's not there anymore. General Motors is teetering. These are companies that one or two generations ago it seemed to be totally reasonable to bank your entire future on the company. Well, it's not the case any more.
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I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.
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When you involve the community in the bank, it just moves the bank forward
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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
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The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable - there is financial stability - and that is the role that the central bank plays.
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Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.
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Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.
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We're going to end up selling the bank at some point
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.
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It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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That decision will in history be written as the biggest mistake that American administration ever made, because Lehmans was a world investment bank. They had testicles everywhere.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
