Best Bankers Sayings
213 Bankers quotes by 173 unique authors
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As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became…
— Eustace Mullins
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The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.
— John Maynard Keynes
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If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your…
— John Maynard Keynes
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional…
— John Maynard Keynes
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When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.
— Henry Ford
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I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my…
— Rick Santelli
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Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what…
— Alan Greenspan
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs…
— Alan Greenspan
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[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.
— Charlie Munger
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
— Jamie Dimon
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Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the…
— Marian McPartland
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A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids…
— John Kuhn
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I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class…
— Smedley Butler
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of…
— Tom Peters
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The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
— Alan Blinder
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Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
— Ogden Nash
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All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a…
— John F. Kennedy
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What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone.
— Walter Bagehot
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The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their…
— Diane Coyle
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
— Albert Einstein
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