Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Finance and Politics and Banks - Oh my

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – Robert Frost

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. – Ambrose Bierce

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. – Robert W. Sarnoff

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. – James Reston

I once said cynically of a politician, “He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.” – Oscar Levant

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