Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with...

When a man’s bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman’s body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we’ll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I’m a human being like everyone else. I’m not exempt.

Redemption isn’t giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation’s banks because bank robberies have been a priority.

In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham’s wife didn’t like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the...

I’m just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.

I should charge my bank money every time I endorse the back of a check. What is the going rate these days for the autograph of an aspiring writer?

The bank – the monster has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size.

People think when you have a, quote, ‘bank failure,’ that that is the end of the bank. And it isn’t necessarily.

I own nothing, but at least nothing owns me. Well, besides the bank.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I’ve moved into it on my own.

I had a dream about you. I had a boomerang and you had a Frisbee. You asked if I wanted to play catch, and I said yes. Then you stood around waiting for me to...

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must ‘modernize multilateralism.’

from RIVERMy body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit...

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you ‘belong’ to someone, and your man makes bank.

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...

If I worked at a Laundromat, I’d steal money, and if I worked at a bank, I’d steal clothes.

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure...

And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.

The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve,...

Buy one I love you for $3.99. Buy twelve for $48.00. That’s a savings of twelve cents—directly into my bank account. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Objects not intended for individuals who tend to put forever objects in...

It’s interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.