Bankers Quotes

Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it. — Virginia Cowles

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death. — Alan Nunnelee

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. — Terry Pratchett

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants. — Vivek Wadhwa

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money. — Chris O'Dowd

Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it. — Ian Pattison

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. — Oscar Wilde

This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers' belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn't. — Michael Lewis

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job. — Alex Jones

[Books} are the bankers of the treasures of the mind. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer. — Ogden Nash

I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that. — Ivan Glasenberg

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. — David Riesman

I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts. — Charlie Munger

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining. — Mark Twain

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious? — Charles Spurgeon

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating. — Bernie Sanders

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. — Henry Ford

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker. — Katy Lederer

I've never particularly liked bankers. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers. — Patricia A. Woertz

My bankers are very happy with me. — Prince

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. — Abraham Lincoln

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world. — Aaron Russo

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. — Will Durant

On Fire Island everyone was in a Speedo pulling a wagon of groceries across the bumpy boardwalk; you couldn't tell the houseboys from the bankers. — Edmund White

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants. — Sadiq Khan

I recall that one of the first investment bankers I met taught me a poem. God gave you eyes, plagiarize. A — Michael Lewis

A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London. — Eustace Mullins

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers. — Eli Broad

The prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent. — Grant McLachlan

We all have banker problems. We all have issues. — Karolyn Grimes

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer — Ogden Nash

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. — John Le Carre

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours. — Chris Eigeman

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra

I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, I'm a great guy. — Bill Burr

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. — Henry Ford

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. — Mick Jagger

Difference between rich and wealthy? Wall Street bankers are rich but they are no wealthy.Wealthy people are the ones writing their checks. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. — Muhammad Yunus

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. — Francis Aungier

Take not for friends wolves and bankers; they both have voracious appetites - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street. — Barack Obama

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading. — Terry Pratchett

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House. — Thom Browne

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter. — Honore De Balzac

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor. — Lupe Fiasco

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. — William Rees-Mogg

You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington. — Steve Daines

The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. — Mason Cooley

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare. — Barry Schwartz

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges. — Jeff Abbott

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth. — Alan Blinder

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money — Oscar Wilde

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. — Tina Brown

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. — John Ralston Saul

How many more investment bankers need to show up in court before people stop incriminating themselves in writing? — Penelope Trunk

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system. — Ben Bernanke

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers. — Ben Bernanke

Shopkeepers are not bankers. — Laurent Fabius

No one ever felt sorry for a banker. — Dominic Lawson

God does not play dice, bankers do. — Greg Curtis

Bankers make money, too, but I'm not running up into Chase and throwing milk shakes at the homie selling subprime mortgages. — Eddie Huang

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. — Mark Twain

I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember. — John Grisham

Investment bankers make money for a living. — Michael Lewis

These were bankers we were talking about, and I owed taxes. They'd hunt me to the ends of the earth! — Mark Lawrence

Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead. — Brit Bennett

Waterside was poor. Hillside was rich. Waterside stank. Hillside was clean. Waterside had thieves. Hillside had bankers -I'm sorry, burglars. — Patrick Rothfuss

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad

These bankers here ain't no different than anybody else. They lie, they cheat, they steal. Difference is, they don't get caught. — D.M. Pulley

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building? — Sara Sheridan

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details. — John Wooden

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town. — Jane Bryant Quinn

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. — Helen Keller

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. — John Berryman

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis. — Dalton Trumbo

Bankers all wanted to be princes. Professors all wanted to be Martin Luther. — Graham Moore

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. — Albert Einstein

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. — Robert Reich

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is. — Maximilien Robespierre

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. — Allen Tate

These days the investment bankers came to Silicon Valley. — Michael Lewis

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your mercy. — John Maynard Keynes

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. — Mario Batali

small-town bankers like Justin Barker — A.W. Gray

Central bankers are not seers, not miracle workers. They are government employees. — Seth Lipsky

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. — Will Durant

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law. — William K. Black

Let those other women marry bankers. I've got myself a Marine. — Mollie Gross

What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life
not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life. — Suze Orman

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. — Abraham Lincoln