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Quote by Mark Twain
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shinin

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. – Mark Twain

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. – Mark Twain

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain

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Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. – Jaffar Hussein

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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – Bertolt Brecht

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Most people…find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. – Howard Davies

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