Bankers Quotes

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

— Ogden Nash

“Government is a tool of the bankers.”

— Anonymous

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

— William Jennings Bryan

We all have banker problems. We all have issues.

— Karolyn Grimes

I've never particularly liked bankers.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Investment bankers make money for a living.”

— Michael Lewis

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My bankers are very happy with me.

— Prince

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street.

— Barack Obama

I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that.

— Ivan Glasenberg

It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.

— Emily Thornberry

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

— William Rees-Mogg

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

— Patricia A. Woertz

“All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.”

— Lindsey Davis

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

— Muhammad Yunus

“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”

— Sara Sheridan

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have…

— John Berryman

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

— Francis Aungier

What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!

— Anna Louise Strong

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

— Charles Duhigg

What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but…

— Suze Orman

“It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers…

— Henry Ford

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do…

— Simon Mainwaring

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you…

— Raymond C. Hoiles

Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven,…

— Andrea Leadsom

The Illuminati bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure…

— Henry Makow

Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy,…

— Milton Friedman

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the…

— Carroll Quigley

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go…

— Ron Paul

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't…

— Indira Gandhi

As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire…

— Walt Disney

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our…

— David Rockefeller

... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother…

— Hans Zinsser

“After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, I must conclude that the global bankers have only three possible cards…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want…

— Noam Chomsky

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons…

— Suzy Kassem