A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team,…

— Rick Harrison

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

— Evan Esar

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

— Richard Condon

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to…

— Charles Bock

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is…

— Jean Giraudoux

“A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly,”

— Theodore Dreiser

I heard Governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe…

— Rick Santorum

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and,…

— Edmund Burke

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The personal checks and balances that most of us bring to bear when we are employed in other activities - we ask ourselves if…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

“The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam. Real wealth is tangible…

— Chris Martenson

What I'm denying is that I'm this cutthroat financier.

— Abby Lee Miller

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a…

— Bergen Evans

I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

— Laura Haddock