"When bankers get into business they usually..." - Quote by Henry Ford

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

“History's just one darn thing after another.”

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”

“In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.”

“If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.”

“The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.”

“The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”