Bank Quotes

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faith
- Public
- Creditor
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
- Dad
- Promoters
- Westons

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
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
- System
- Bank
- Crises
What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

Liberace
- Hurt
- Bank
- Cried
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
- Growth
- Issues
- Inequality
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
- Done
- Boy
- Beer
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
- Bank
- Account
- Seat