58 Quotes on Banks

• The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

  Author: Jon Wynne-Tyson

• Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

  Author: Stuart Varney

• Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  Author: Henry Timrod

• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Author: Josiah Stamp

• On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  Author: Hank Sauer

• The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

  Author: Arundhati Roy

• 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.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

  Author: John Robinson

• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

  Author: William Petty

• A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.

  Author: Francis Parkman

• Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

  Author: Knute Nelson

• 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.

  Author: Said Musa

• The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

  Author: Richard McKenna

• In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

  Author: Charles Lyell

• Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

  Author: Alan King

• The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

  Author: Kathleen Kenyon

• We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

  Author: Frank James

• I have always been afraid of banks.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

  Author: John Hume

• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  Author: J. Hoover

• 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.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

  Author: Carter Glass

• A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

  Author: William Gibson

• 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.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

  Author: John Galbraith

• Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

  Author: Alberto Fujimori

• China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Author: Arnie Duncan

• All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

  Author: Dustin Diamond

• Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.

  Author: Marc Davis

• Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

  Author: E. Cossman

• Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

  Author: Scott Cook

• If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

  Author: Ron Chernow

• In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

  Author: Ron Chernow

• There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

  Author: David Cameron

• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

  Author: John Calhoun

• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

  Author: Vince Cable

• Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

  Author: Martin Buren

• The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

  Author: Martin Buren

• This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

  Author: Sitting Bull

• Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

  Author: Ronald Biggs

• The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

  Author: Vinoba Bhave

• Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

  Author: William Bartram

• The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.

  Author: John Ashcroft

• Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

  Author: Mary Ash

• The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

  Author: Lord Acton

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