Amadeo Giannini

“And even though he'd been rejected by everybody else, he funds and finances personally, actually, and this is not even out of the bank. Walt Disney's Snow White, the first you know, Disney film.”

“He ends up getting paid back every single loan. Every penny of every loan gets, ended up getting paid back. So he did not lose money on a single loan”

“So he becomes the first guy to do The bank branch model. So he's like, we're going to have local branches in every place. I'm going to figure out how to sync the ledger in the back end, right? I'm going to figure out how to make sure all the balances are kept …”

“He still never takes more than 50,000 dollars a year salary. He owns zero stock in Bank of America. His family does not you know, inherit this giant fortune, and he dies in 1949, not owning a single share of the bank that he founded”