#bank

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself! ↗

— Herman Cain

#big #blame #job #rich #street

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#banks #built #destroyed #power #revolves

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #bankers #get #i #i think

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word. ↗

— Maya Banks

#fever #jace-crestwell #maya-banks #beauty

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#brokerage #firms #household #massive #savings

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#bucks #done #had #i #million

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#banks #business #clean #clean energy #come