L. William Seidman famous quotes

Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.
-- L. William Seidman

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A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.
-- L. William Seidman

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You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.
-- L. William Seidman

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When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.