Bank
Definition: The land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake. Heap (a substance) into a mass or mound. A financial establishment that uses money
deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency. Deposit (money or valuables) in a bank.
Number of Quotes: 13
Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.
Walter Bagehot
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside
of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.
Saul Bellow
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of
money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
George Washington Carver
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
Jean Paul Getty
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
Keith Joseph
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with
the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
Martin Mayer
A credit card is a money tool, not a supplement to money. The failure to make
this distinction has 'supplemented' many a poor soul right into bankruptcy.
Paula Nelson
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
William Proxmire
A banker is a man who lends another man the money of a third man.
Guy de Rothschild
Behind all its global responsibilities and impersonal style banking is still a people business
... it may
be the most personal business of all for it always depends on the original concept of credit, meaning trust.
Anthony Sampson
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
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