A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. — Bob Hope
If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now — Bernie Sanders
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver. — Constance Markievicz
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. — Frederic Bastiat
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win." — Mitch Hedberg
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot — Allen Iverson
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. — Bernie Sanders
Short Banks Quotes
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank. — Bertolt Brecht
Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. — Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Cory
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. — Jose Saramago
Community banks are a crucial part of our economy and the fabric of our society. — Jerome Powell
Banks died in 2008. They just haven’t been buried yet. — Max Keiser
Bitcoin is a boycott of the greatest organized crime syndicate in human history — central banking. — Robert Breedlove
It is not a fish until it is on the bank — Irish Proverbs
Banks Image Quotes
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Banks And Money Quotes
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning. — Andrew Jackson
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. — Alanis Obomsawin
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. — Thomas Jefferson
At the same time, given the situation of the Central Bank's liabilities, which is worse than it was during hyperinflation, in a very short time the amount of money could quadruple and thus raise inflation to levels of 15,000 percent per year. — Javier Milei
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. — Abraham Lincoln
In 1899, when American writer Nellie Bly set out on her record-breaking journey around the world in seventy-two days, she carried British gold coins and Bank of England notes with her. It was possible to circumnavigate the globe and use one form of money everywhere Nellie went. — Saifedean Ammous
I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin. — Max Keiser
It is necessary to clean up the Central Bank's interest-bearing liabilities, thus putting an end to money-printing and with it, the only empirically true and theoretically valid cause of inflation. — Javier Milei
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson
You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel? — Tony Evans
Food Banks Quotes
I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. — Andy Hertzfeld
Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed. — Nicola Sturgeon
In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry. — Sela Ward
There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry. — Ed Asner
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. — Norman Borlaug
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food. — Pearl S. Buck
America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders. — Pierce Brosnan
And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do. — Marcella Hazan
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp. — Jeff Bridges
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. — Beth Henley
Commercial Banks Quotes
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill
In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes. — Robert G. Wilmers
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. — John Gutfreund
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans. — Kurt Vonnegut
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort. — Said Musa
The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank. — Erin Moran
Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies. — Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of the most successful retail and commercial bankers. We do a great job for customers. — Jamie Dimon
If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be going a lot faster over time, and one day they can be a lot bigger than us. — Jamie Dimon
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. — Ben Bernanke
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization. — Otto von Bismarck
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization. — Ida Tarbell
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. — George Washington Carver
I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world. — Mark Cavendish
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion — Vinnie Paz
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres. — Gouverneur Morris
Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time. — John Adams
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. — Joseph Conrad
I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart. — John Dillinger
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. — John Jay Chapman
The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping. — Douglas Bader
When the central bank manipulates the interest rate lower than the market clearing price by directing banks to create more money by lending, they are at once reducing the amount of savings available in society and increasing the quantity demanded by borrowers while also directing the borrowed capital toward projects which cannot be completed. — Saifedean Ammous
Banks could issue digital cash with greater anonymity and lighter weight, more efficient transactions. — Hal Finney
We shall defend our land, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the woods, in the fields, on the beaches, in the cities and villages, in the streets, we shall fight in the hills... we shall fight on the spoil tips, on the banks of the Kalmius and the Dnieper. And we shall not surrender. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Although I have never worked in a community bank, I have been a customer, and I know from personal experience the special skills that these institutions bring to their customers. — Jerome Powell
Two particular technological advancements would move Europe and the world away from physical coins and in turn help bring about the demise of silver's monetary role: the telegraph, first deployed commercially in 1837, and the growing network of trains, allowing transportation across Europe. With these two innovations, it became increasingly feasible for banks to communicate with each other, sending payments efficiently across space when needed and debiting accounts instead of having to send physical payments. This led to the increased use of bills, checks, and paper receipts as monetary media instead of physical gold and silver coins. More nations began to switch to a monetary standard of paper fully backed by, and instantly redeemable into, precious metals held in vaults. — Saifedean Ammous
Bitcoin's revolution: an impossible-to-counterfeit digital store of value that can be used as money, that has no sovereign, or central bank involved, that can be sent anywhere instantly at virtually no cost, is irresistible. Anyone who uses it is converted. — Max Keiser
When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. — Hilary Rosen
The banking industry has traditionally been characterized by physical branches, privileged access to financial data, and distinct expertise in analyzing such data. — Jerome Powell
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