Carol Bartz Quotes

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

A Bank in Human Form.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

I do not dislike your bank any more than all banks.

The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.