Financial Harm Quotes

Haven't we all grown up trusting high street banks? Their branches were fixtures, not only in our towns and cities, but in the way our lives ran. Yet it is no exaggeration to say that thousands, possibly millions of us, instead of being helped have found our lives permanently damaged by the toxic U.K. financial system.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

We will continue to hold accountable financial institutions that, in the pursuit of their own financial interests, misuse public funds and cause harm to hard working Americans.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Navient/Sallie Mae treated student loan borrowers unfairly from start to finish.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there's fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find, then that may be the best thing that you can do. And - also, if you do become a Wall Street banker, I think you need to be aware of what you're doing in terms of your daily work, not just earning money to give a lot away. But you need to think about - am I harming people through the work that I'm doing?

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

I don't need to show anybody anything other than getting the guy out who is trying to make his money off of me.

Money can be detrimental for kids.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Some states are doing better than others. Some states naturally have stronger economies. So it's not as simple as saying, 'Let's go to $15.' If you do it wrong, you can hurt the very people you're trying to help.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.