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Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism? -- Przemek Skwirczynski
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is. -- Maximilien Robespierre
In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on. -- Avinash Advani
I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author. -- Amish Tripathi
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker. -- Yossi Vardi
Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker. -- Gerry Spence
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. -- Tom Ford
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets. -- Euvin Naidoo
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. -- Yoko Ono
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? -- Alan King
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay. -- Larry Kramer
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. -- Anthony Quinn
As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
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. -- Robertson Davies
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. -- Warren Christopher
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film. -- Jean Reno
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it. -- Charlie Munger
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research. -- Laura Wasser
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. -- Ron Chernow
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much. -- Rick Perlstein
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues. -- James Surowiecki
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. -- David Chang
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. -- Arundhati Roy
I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s). -- Peter York
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor. -- Allison Williams
No one ever felt sorry for a banker. -- Dominic Lawson
We all have banker problems. We all have issues. -- Karolyn Grimes
Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. -- Kara Swisher
The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth. -- Alan Blinder
The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn. -- Mason Cooley
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. -- Henry David Thoreau
A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details. -- John Wooden
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business. -- Jamie Dimon
Oh, Finn isn't an assassin," I cut in. "He's much, much worse. He's a banker. -- Jennifer Estep
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. -- Albert Einstein
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. -- Ben Bernanke
I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie. -- Peter Jacobson
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining. -- Mark Twain
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. -- Allen Tate
Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone. -- Walter Bagehot
The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious? -- Charles Spurgeon
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. -- Baron de Montesquieu
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer! -- Anna Louise Strong
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The old saying holds. Owe your banker ï¿½1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him ï¿½1 million and the position is reversed. -- John Maynard Keynes
One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. -- Ogden Nash
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
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime. -- Matt Taibbi
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
Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker. -- Ann Coulter
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul. -- Waylon Jennings
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
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
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Alan Greenspan
I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic. -- Eliot Spitzer
I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control. -- William Safire
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory? -- Ian Brown
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor. -- Yanis Varoufakis
I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned how people make jobs. -- Sean Hannity
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook. -- Eduardo Saverin
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. -- Will Rogers
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else. -- Vincente Minnelli
Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it. -- Malorie Blackman
How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money. -- Donald Trump
Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?' -- Edwin Land
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. -- W. Averell Harriman
Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker. -- Marian McPartland

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