Banking is necessary, banks are not.

Banking is not about products; it is about people.
Banks have a critical role to play in fostering economic growth and supporting social progress..
The only way you’ll find out if you ‘have it in you’ is to get to work and see if you do.


Banking is not money lending; it is money creation.
Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders..
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin..


A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
Banking’s much-too-important-to-fail institutions have become much-too-unimportant-to-save.
I place the economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money, and I’ll tell you what they are.
When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.


Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver..
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.