I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Somebody needs to position you and introduce you, but after that, most of the bankers get represented with their large clients; mostly… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I think decentralized finance and traditional banking are going to experience a kind of hybridization within the next few decades; a blending… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
The bankers' Satanic Conspiracy is the source of anti Semitism. The sooner Jews rise up to oppose it; the sooner anti-Semitism will… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“But bankers used to be subjected to Hammurabi’s rule. The tradition in Catalonia was to behead bankers in front of their own… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors,… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“President John F. Kennedy, like Lincoln, attempted to curtail the bankers by diminishing the power of the Federal Reserve. In June 1963,… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did. If everyone else ran off a bloody cliff, they’d run right off… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line… — Bruce Bruce Copy Share Image
The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image