“Being a rocket scientist had its advantages. Within 15 minutes, Buck had a written a program that's a standard today for any online credit card transaction.”— George Gallo, Andy Weiss, Jack Harris, Luke Wilson, amazon.com
“No one is paying attention because the banks are too busy getting paid obscene fees to sell these bonds.”— Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Jared Vennett, Ryan Gosling, amazon.com
“You guys said you wanted to get rich, now you're rich.”— Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Ben Rickert, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“Which means, if we're right, people lose homes, people lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions.”— Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Ben Rickert, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”— Satoshi Nakamoto, nakamotoinstitute.org
“We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.”— Satoshi Nakamoto, p2pfoundation.ning.com
“Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.”— Satoshi Nakamoto, p2pfoundation.ning.com
“I had asked the question, I got the wrong answer. How liquid were the positions? How many days can you get out? I was told ten. It was like, hundreds. I said "Oh shit, we have a problem."”— Jamie Dimon, youtube.com
“You can have work-life balance. It is your job to take care of your mind, your body, your health, your soul, your family, your friends, your health. Your job, not our job.”— Jamie Dimon, youtube.com
“Its not because they write, oh the bankers are defending their stuff. That's absolutely not true. If Bitcoin works then we'll do something there too.”— Jamie Dimon, youtube.com
“The bigger you are, the more the government is going to get inside what you do and impose rules and standards. Sometimes for good, sometimes not for good.”— Jamie Dimon, youtube.com
“One of the most popular ways to short bitcoin is through CFDs, a derivative that mirrors the movements of the asset. It’s a contract between the client and the broker, where the buyer and seller of the CFD agree to settle any rise or drop in prices in cash on the contract date.”— Camila Russo, bloomberg.com
“Cumberland, DRW’s digital-currency unit, says it has traded more than $20 billion worth of bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies in the past year.”— Alexander Osipovich, wsj.com
“"Why isn’t financial literacy taught in schools?" Because the powers that be have a vested interest in you being utterly confused by a financial system where a series of simple mistakes can leave you in debt for the rest of your life.”— korolevx, korolevx.tumblr.com
“What I always tell my board is, we have to be prepared for whether or not it's going to happen. We have to prepare for bad events. We’re a big bank in China, I prepare for the worst. I don’t think it's going to happen, I think China will be a large developed nation in 30 years housing a large percen…”— Jamie Dimon, youtube.com
“The value of the metal in a nickel is worth six point eight cents, did you know that?”— Kyle Bass, amazon.com
“I started to see deterioration in the trust remittance data, in the presidential trust.”— Kyle Bass, youtube.com
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”— Thomas Jefferson, amazon.com