Banking Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Hands, Regulation, Environment

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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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• In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, Cutting, Police

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• Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Government, Wells

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2013

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• I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

  Anne Robinson

  Thinking, Arms, Should

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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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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• Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting directing, whatever it is you have to stay true to who you are because they hired you to do what you do.

  Anne Fletcher

  Jobs, Acting, Stay True

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Thinking, Stronger

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• I dream of a Digital India where mobile and e-Banking ensures Financial Inclusion.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Digital India, Financial

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• 'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'

  Barry Ritholtz

  Long, Political, Quality

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• Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

  John Adams

  Usury, Loan, Interest

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• You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Views, Problem, Horns

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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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