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 Copy Share Image
Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“There’s a best time for everything – including the acquisition of capital.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. — John le Carre 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
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
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
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands,… — Mario Batali 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
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
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman… — William D. Cohan Copy Share Image
The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“A healthy Banking system is one of the vital parts of a nation's foundation.” — Hendrith Smith Copy Share Image
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson Copy Share Image
I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image