Financier Quote by Anonymous

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they…

— Christina Stead

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

— George Bernard Shaw

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and,…

— Edmund Burke

“They use their minds to create wealth—not by taking existing materials and turning them into more valuable goods, but by taking existing wealth and…

— Yaron Brook

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as “clients,” is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly…

— Michael Lewis

For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior,…

— Lionel Shriver

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

— George Horace Lorimer

The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have…

— Benjamin A. Rogge

“After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more…

— Thomas J. Stanley

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is…

— Jean Giraudoux