Banking Quotes

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. ― Bob Hope


Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

Consumer banking – selling the debt to middle-class families – has been a gold mine.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

I can’t imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else’s logo.

No country can truly develop if half it’s population is left behind. ― Justing Greening

Banking is Necessary, Banks are Not. ― Bill Gates Quotes






I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.― Thomas Jefferson

When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. (“Kein Schwein ruft mich an” )― Erik Pevernagie

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.― J.K. Rowling




The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,’ said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. ‘Like the profits made by banks,’ he went on. ‘This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.― Leo Tolstoy

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state’s means of exchange.― Robert A. Heinlein

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.― E. Joseph Cossman

My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you’re a bank.― Bill Maher


The banking institutions, my friends, are sailing under false colours. They are running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. And we should never forget it.― Karl Wiggins

Banks are nothing but old fashioned money lenders. They encourage you to borrow, to get in debt, and when you can’t pay back the loan they take your home away. At least a money lender only breaks your legs.― Karl Wiggins

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.― Ziad K. Abdelnour


You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!― Nicole McKay

Banks are to the economy what the heart is to the human body. They cycle necessary capital through the whole, and they are barely noticed until pressure, necessity, or crises.― Hendrith Smith

We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t a man. The bank isn’t like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men.― John Steinbeck

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do have a sneaking admiration for anyone who has the intelligence to plan a ‘job’ properly and the courage to carry it out. As long as no one gets hurt and the target is a bank or an insurance company.― Karl Wiggins

Advances in digital banking will not eliminate the branch, they will allow for more creative ways to help clients achieve financial wellbeing.― Hendrith Smith

People aren’t pissed just to be pissed. They’re mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the Hamptons through a crude fraud scheme that decimated their retirement funds, caused property values in their neighborhoods to collapse and caused over four million people to be put in foreclosure.― Matt Taibbi

if we behaved like banks we woluld be charged with fraud
― Jacque Fresco, The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War

His mind filled with visions of a decadent kleptocracy in rapid decline, abetted by both political parties. America’s masses, fed on processed poison bought with a food stamp swipe card. Low-skill workers, structurally unable to ever contribute again and too dumb to know their old jobs weren’t coming back. The banks in Gotham leaching the last drops of wealth out of the country. Corporations unrestrained by any notion of national interest. The system of property law in shambles. The world drowning in debt.― George Packer

There are people in Europe that struggled during an entire life to save as much as possible in banks that bankrupted and left them homeless.― Robin Sacredfire

Giving the banks free interest loans is like the government subsidizing the banks. That’s crazy!― Kenneth Eade

By loaning banks money for no interest, you’re really letting them into the casinos with the house’s money, aren’t you?― Kenneth Eade

The problem with keeping money in a bank is that in the blink of a tiger’s eye it will turn on you: what’s yours becomes theirs, what was your sweat and labour and sold off portions of a lifetime becomes a stranger’s.― Paolo Bacigalupi

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.― Iain M. Banks

Eric Daniels, the boss at Lloyds TSB for example, was paid less than Goggin in 2007 despite delivering three and a half times Bank of Ireland’s profits that year. Goggins’ total package was 50 percent more than that of Andy Hornby of HBOS, who collected €2.6 million in 2007. The Scottish giant made €6.988 billion that year compared to Bank of Ireland’s €1.584 billion.― Shane Ross


A bank is but honesty with a premium. At least this is what it is supposed to be.― Lamine Pearlheart

In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.― David Alejandro Fearnhead

Don’t trust banks, trust math.― Santosh Kalwar

When you gain, they (banks) gain. When you lose, they’re indifferent.― Anas Hamshari

Banks depend on you to survive; you are a smart and beneficial victim of that.― Ehsan Sehgal

Google takes your privacy, governments take your rights, banks take your money, corporations take your jobs, Bitcoin and other blockchain powered solutions gives it all back.― Olawale Daniel

It is time for a new beginning.― Jeffrey Tucker

The bank wanted me to sell those customers that debt, because the system needs you to buy that new car, that holiday to Barbados, that latest iPhone or that new extension you’ve always been dreaming off. The banks are happy to let you do it with their high interest credit products, and they want me to be the guy that sells the idea to you. I was serving the machine that was enslaving me.― K.A. Hill

Harold,’ she would say, ‘do you think I’m a fool? If I place the Crimson Diamond in any safe-deposit vault in New York, somebody will steal it, sooner or later.’ Then she would nibble a sprig of catnip and peer cunningly at me.― Robert W. Chambers

I don’t have a bank account, because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.– Paula Poundstone



Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.– Dan Quayle

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