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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 Banks 99
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. Henry Timrod Banks 97
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. Carter G. Woodson Banks 87
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. Lord Acton Banks 85
I rob banks for a living, what do you do? John Dillinger Banks 78
The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. Stuart Varney Banks 72
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 71
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 Banks 67
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 Banks 65
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson Banks 64
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 Banks 61
The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star. Hank Sauer Banks 59
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort. Said Musa Banks 58
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. Ron Chernow Banks 57
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. David Rockefeller Banks 57
The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. William Petty Banks 54
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems. Timothy Geithner Banks 48
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. Sitting Bull Banks 47
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! John Buchanan Robinson Banks 44
Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. Jaffar Hussein Banks 43
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. William Gibson Banks 39
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. Knute Nelson Banks 38
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. Bertolt Brecht Banks 38
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. Scott Cook Banks 29
The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. Kathleen Kenyon Banks 24
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. John C. Calhoun Banks 23
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. Lord Longford Banks 20

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