A few issues with this quote: Stamp wasn't "President of the Bank of England in the 1920s". Montagu Norman was, as is well documented (the term is "Governor"). He wasn't the second richest man in Britain or even remotely close. And the quote is almost certainly a fabrication. (It first appears more than 30 years later in a pamphlet by Silas Adams, where it is repeated 4 times, each time with slightly different wording. There is no contemporary record of the quote, and no reliable secondary source either. It is completely at odds with Josiah Stamp's other statements. And the remarks about "great fortunes like mine" are bizarre since Stamp didn't make his money from banking.) Other than that, spot on.