[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
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
“Banking is transforming. What a bank will be in 2030 is going to be significantly different from what a bank has been… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth 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
If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who… — John Kuhn Copy Share Image
Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf) You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who’s worse,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
[My father] was always upset that my mother didn't want to live in New York. Because he said he wanted to live… — Paul Laffoley 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
“The picture of bankers slavering after bonuses soon after they had been rescued by government bailouts was not only outrageous but also… — Raghuram G. Rajan 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
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to… — Christopher Brookmyre 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Bankers don't get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair… — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The e-mails [from WikiLeaks] show that behind closed doors speaking to these international bankers, Hillary Clinton's pledged to destroy the sovereignty of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare. — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image