Banking Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

  Anne Robinson

  People, Process, Managers

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on its comparative advantages, and banking is not one of them. It should, therefore, if it nationalizes banks, sell them back to the private sector.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

  Adam McKay

  Essentials, Finance, Modern

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Developing Countries, Corporations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In Africa it's difficult to carry the money, it's difficult to have a banking system with tellers, with distribution of cash. So they are using their mobile phones.

  Maurice Levy

  Phones, Cash, Difficult

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.

  Tod Goldberg

  Ideas, Doe, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Leader, Political, Would Be

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• Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Reach Out, Microcredit

  "Create social business funds in each country and city". Interview with David Bornstein, www.thedailystar.net. April 19, 2013.

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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• I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, People, Choices

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin

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• Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Stupid, People, Confusion

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• When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, House, Needs

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• If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Pounds, Problem, Economic

  The Economist, p. 11, February 13, 1982.

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• Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Hair, Wind

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Years, Progress

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• The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

  Anshu Jain

  Inspiring, Shadow, Important

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• The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

  Bill Gates

  Doe, Needs, World

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• Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

  Leila Janah

  Opportunity, Poverty, Economic

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• My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

  Julia Child

  Father, Real, Land

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Fire, Politics

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• Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Grew, Happens, Things Happen

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• If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Government, Deception

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.141, Harriman House Limited

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• In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Practice, People

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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