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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

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.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

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.

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.