Banking Quotes - Page 12

• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  Vikram Chatwal

  Careers, Path, Investment

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• Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Mean, Europe, Political

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• Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Morning, Years, Missing

  "Q&A: Chetan Bhagat on His New Book". Interview with Diksha Sahni, blogs.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.

  Martin Walker

  Country, Banking Crisis, Europe

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• The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

  James Chanos

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

  Joe Flanigan

  Jobs, College, Graduates

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Government, Stripes, Growth

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• People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

  Lucy Powell

  Jobs, Banking Crisis, People

  "Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2008.

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• Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

  Mark Skousen

  Technology, Simple, Causes

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• We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

  Janet Yellen

  Maturity, Shadow, Needs

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• In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

  Janet Yellen

  Jobs, Decision, Boards

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• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Wall, Husband, Grandmother

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• In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Style, Association, Conservative

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Credit

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, People, Risk

  "Christine Lagarde: Facing down worldwide recession". Interview with Lara Logan, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

  Polly Toynbee

  Women, Mean, Ideas

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• I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Towers, Knows, One Thing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Country, New York, Taken

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.

  Hakim

  Real, Believe, Dawn

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• Innovation has stalled in the banking industry. While the rest of the world is in the digital age, banking remains stagnant. We are here to change this and bring banking to the 21st century. We will ensure our customers feel involved in the progress of this bank and are offering them a truly enjoyable banking experience – different from anything they have experienced before.

  Jay Sidhu

  Offering, Innovation, Age

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• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, Class

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.568, Best Books on

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• It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

  Henry Paulson

  Sound, Safe, Situation

  "CBS News' Face the Nation", www.cbsnews.com. July 20, 2008.

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• Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

  George Washington

  Money, Power, Office

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• My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Father, Able

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1872). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.11

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