Banks / Banking

Whats breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht

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

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

No one has a greater asset for his business than a mans pride in his work. – Mary Parker Follet

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you dont need it. – Bob Hope

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

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. – Thomas Jefferson

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

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. – Lord Longford

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank. – Will Rogers

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

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton