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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.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

3.9 · 62 votes · 136 reads

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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

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PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

4.5 · 30 votes

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

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Jean Baudrillard

PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

4.2 · 30 votes · 108 reads

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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.

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PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

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

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WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

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WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

4.9 · 39 votes

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