When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern fina...
We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it main...
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
Lady in the Bank: There's something wrong, the bank won't give someone their money. Depositor: Well, I'm going to get mine. Come along, young man, every penny!
Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stop using the medical system and start using the self care system
Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.
To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a t...
