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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. -- John Ralston Saul
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard -- Will Durant
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. -- Muhammad Yunus
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
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. -- Josiah Stamp
Shopkeepers are not bankers. -- Laurent Fabius
Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer -- Ogden Nash
Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer. -- Ogden Nash
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. -- Henry Ford
Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker. -- Gerry Spence
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. -- J. Paul Getty
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard -- Will Durant
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. -- Will Durant
Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes. -- Jim Hightower
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. -- Charles Kettering
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
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -- Robert Frost
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. -- James Buchan
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
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
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
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. -- Carroll Quigley
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. -- Arthur Erickson
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
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
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. -- Nelson W. Aldrich
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
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
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. -- Josiah Stamp
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. -- Will Rogers
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. -- Carroll Quigley
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. -- Smedley Butler
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. -- Diane Coyle
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
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. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
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. -- Otto von Bismarck
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. -- David Rockefeller
Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. -- Terry Pratchett
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. -- Eli Broad
Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor. -- Lupe Fiasco
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. -- Tina Brown
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
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. -- Marcus Samuelsson
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
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. -- Emilio Ambasz
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. -- Jack Welch
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. -- Simon Mainwaring
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. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
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. -- John Sununu
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. -- Felix Rohatyn
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. -- Rose George
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. -- Smedley Butler
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. -- Nick Offerman
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. -- Bernie Sanders
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. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
I've never particularly liked bankers. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
You are losing because of Jewish bankers. -- David Remnick
When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. -- Henry Ford
Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. -- Robert Reich
Why is it that all wars are won by bankers? -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. -- Mason Cooley
Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants. -- Sadiq Khan
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. -- William Rees-Mogg
I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. -- John le Carre
I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers. -- Patricia A. Woertz
I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts. -- Charlie Munger
The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. -- Oscar Wilde
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. -- Barbara Tuchman
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. -- Mick Jagger
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. -- Matthew Quick
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers. -- Eli Broad
Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges. -- Jeff Abbott
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. -- Pankaj Mishra
The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law. -- William K. Black
It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job. -- Alex Jones
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. -- James Rickards
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels. -- Charles Duhigg
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. -- David Riesman
I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street. -- Barack Obama
[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, Iâ??m a great guy. -- Bill Burr
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. -- Francis Aungier
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
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor -- Helen Keller
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. -- Helen Keller
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. -- David Rockefeller
Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions. -- Donald Trump
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. -- Will Durant
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare. -- Barry Schwartz
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. -- Thomas Frank
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
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits. -- Winston Churchill
If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that -- William K. Black
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
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
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
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. -- Michael Hudson
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
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
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. -- Alan Furst
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. -- Jarod Kintz
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 -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. -- Ben Bernanke
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. -- Timothy Noah
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
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. -- Ralph Steadman
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. -- Thomas Frank
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. -- Alan Greenspan
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. -- Anthony Sampson
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. -- Will Rogers
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
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. -- Graham Greene
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. -- Cynthia McKinney

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