Bankers Quotes · Page 3

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

— Oscar Wilde

Charity begins at the bank..if you happen to be the president of a charity

— John Lewington

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

— Nicholas Biddle

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

— Sadiq Khan

“When you gain, they (banks) gain. When you lose, they’re indifferent.”

— Anas Hamshari

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

— Jeff Abbott

“A bank is but honesty with a premium. At least this is what it is supposed to be.”

— Lamine Pearlheart

I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

— Jamie Dimon

A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.

— Eustace Mullins

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,…

— Thomas Frank

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity,…

— William Safire

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the…

— Eliot Spitzer

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

— Pankaj Mishra

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields…

— Rutger Bregman

The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.

— Whitney Tilson

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private…

— Carroll Quigley

There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split…

— Noam Chomsky

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it…

— Felix Rohatyn

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time…

— Smedley Butler

I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs…I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts,…

— John C. Danforth

Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes…

— Dale Evans

Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a…

— Robert F. Engle

It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan…

— Pankaj Mishra

The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in…

— Dan Rather

“Europe’s war against debtor countries was turning into class war, which always ends up being waged on the political battlefield. One financial…

— Michael Hudson

“The closest most people have ever come to understanding what an investment banker does may have been on October 24, 1995, when…

— Peter Troob

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

— Walt Disney

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

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

— Hans Zinsser

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

— Gerry Spence

“Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.”

— Ian Pattison

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

“If you think you're using real money forget it. You're just using the adult version of play money.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Ivan Glasenberg

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Lindsey Davis