But we are extremely prudent over the reforms, because compared with other state banks, Agricultural Bank has a heavier burden in terms of asset quality, the number of employees is big and services cover the countryside.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

He was a very pragmatic leader, and he was very successful in provincial level market reforms in the early years.

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.