Quotes about Bankers

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. Votes: 6

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Votes: 5

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. Votes: 4

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. Votes: 4

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. Votes: 4

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Votes: 4

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. Votes: 4

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. Votes: 4

Shopkeepers are not bankers. Votes: 3

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer Votes: 3

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? Votes: 3

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker. Votes: 3

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. Votes: 3

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Votes: 3

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. Votes: 3

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price. Votes: 3

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes. Votes: 3

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Votes: 3

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. Votes: 3

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis. Votes: 3

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. Votes: 3

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays. Votes: 3

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. Votes: 3

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country. Votes: 3

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. Votes: 3

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. Votes: 3

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back. Votes: 3

Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing. Votes: 3

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. Votes: 3

The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists. Votes: 3

I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. Votes: 3

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. Votes: 3

We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide. Votes: 3

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization. Votes: 3

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. Votes: 3

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer. Votes: 2

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants. Votes: 2

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. Votes: 1

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. Votes: 1

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor. Votes: 1

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. Votes: 1

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there. Votes: 1

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. Votes: 1

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn. Votes: 1

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain. Votes: 1

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. Votes: 1

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. Votes: 1

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives. Votes: 1

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. Votes: 1

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route. Votes: 1

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. Votes: 1

What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives. Votes: 1

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage. Votes: 1

I've never particularly liked bankers. Votes: 0

You are losing because of Jewish bankers. Votes: 0

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. Votes: 0

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. Votes: 0

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers? Votes: 0

The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. Votes: 0

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants. Votes: 0

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. Votes: 0

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. Votes: 0

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers. Votes: 0

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money. Votes: 0

I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts. Votes: 0

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others. Votes: 0

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. Votes: 0

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. Votes: 0

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. Votes: 0

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. Votes: 0

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers. Votes: 0

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges. Votes: 0

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. Votes: 0

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law. Votes: 0

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job. Votes: 0

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. Votes: 0

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels. Votes: 0

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. Votes: 0

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street. Votes: 0

[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad. Votes: 0

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation Votes: 0

I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, I’m a great guy. Votes: 0

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. Votes: 0

A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London. Votes: 0

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor Votes: 0

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. Votes: 0

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. Votes: 0

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare. Votes: 0

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits. Votes: 0

If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up. Votes: 0

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. Votes: 0

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers. Votes: 0

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. Votes: 0

Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do. Votes: 0

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending Votes: 0

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers. Votes: 0

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do. Votes: 0

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now. Votes: 0

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability. Votes: 0

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it. Votes: 0

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts. Votes: 0

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor. Votes: 0

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter. Votes: 0

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War. Votes: 0

When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy. Votes: 0

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world. Votes: 0

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general. Votes: 0

Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for. Votes: 0

The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place. Votes: 0

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Votes: 0

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple. Votes: 0

There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman. Votes: 0

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world. Votes: 0

Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing. Votes: 0

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers. Votes: 0

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. Votes: 0

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her! Votes: 0

Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver. Votes: 0

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all. Votes: 0