Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
“The kind of data and the data-analytical perspective privy to banks is quite unique to banks.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
“Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants. — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat.… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Despite Labour's achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When we exited the textiles business, we paid our bankers and labourers. We must have been the only company to do that. — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“since the Depression, we bankers have had the leisure and . . . solitude, you might say, to think about the future. The Civil War… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their… — Nick Drnaso Copy Share Image
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
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