American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. — James Rickards Copy Share Image
And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous,… — Ralph Steadman 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
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
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
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
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government,… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“Even as a former Banker I can see that the Blockchain and Ethereum are challenging the role of traditional banks. I think… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions,… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
“How was it possible that he could handle Swiss bankers, West End impresarios, senior partners and seasoned solicitors, but was a quivering… — Jeffrey Archer 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
“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
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad 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
“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
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
[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
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
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