“The average successful banker is by no means so intelligent and resourceful a man as is the average successful business man. Yet the banker through his control of credit practically controls the average business man.”

Source: My Life and Work (1922), Chapter XII, Money - Master or Servant

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American industrialist 1863–1947

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