#banks

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#banks #before #changing #flowed #i

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. ↗

— John Hume

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He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bankrupt #banks #commercial #go #investment

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#destroys #like #nation #path #spring

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