Bank Quotes
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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.
Timothy Geithner -
Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy's piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer. Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure... not even close.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Ben Bernanke -
What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.
Liberace -
I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.
Aziz Ansari -
I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of the commission said to us: "You are spending taxpayer money to study issues like inequality? Which goes directly against capitalism and growth." That was the perception, that it should not be studied.
Branko Milanovic -
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
Lewis Carroll -
Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.
Brett Weston
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It has to be convenient. You have to be able to bank with me anytime.
Ana Patricia Botin -
The best thing about it is that it went to a guy that literally had two dollars in his bank account on the day he sat down in the hot seat.
Eddie McGuire -
I used to stagger down the street to the bank with these bags of gold, a shotgun each side, and thinking I was pretty important.
R. M. Williams -
We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.
Ana Patricia Botin -
I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.
John Anthony Genzale -
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.
Alan M. Taylor
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In order for the E.U. area to stay together, they needed to form a banking union, which meant they needed to have a common credible deposit insurance guarantee for everybody in the E.U. area.
Athanasios Orphanides -
There are tens of thousands of bank branches and 4,000 currency chests. We need to be careful and try that this is a number which is not a mere estimate but a verified number both physically and in the accounting sense.
Urjit Patel -
Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I have no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the currency and the re-charter of the bank.
Nicholas Biddle -
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
Ethel Merman -
It isn't a killer deal to drop 2 percent. Only if it's a huge holding. But the bigger the holding, the more market risk there is. I wouldn't bank on that.
Ed Slott -
We're a boring retail and commercial bank.
Ana Patricia Botin
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I don't want to stand in the way of the development of the bank and if necessary I will step side, he was really upset, I mean, really upset.
Anshu Jain -
Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.
Amanda Foreman -
The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.
Arthur Frederick Saunders -
Inspiration is an empty bank account.
Frank Morrison Spillane