Best Bankers Thoughts
213 Bankers quotes by 173 unique authors
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I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker…
— Arundhati Roy
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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
— John Ralston Saul
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What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans.…
— Bernie Sanders
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Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
— Bernie Sanders
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But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to…
— Josiah Stamp
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Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how…
— John Sununu
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Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of…
— James Surowiecki
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
— Matt Taibbi
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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 throwing - I…
— Jack Welch
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I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.
— Steven Wright
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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
— Muhammad Yunus
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They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
— Muhammad Yunus
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
— Mark Twain
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The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and…
— Susanna Clarke
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The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
— David Rockefeller
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
— Oscar Wilde
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Really, if that’s the case, you need to stop letting your mother dress you funny. It’s hard to take anyone serious as a killer when…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf) You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who’s worse, my Urian or…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected…
— David Rockefeller
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Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
— Barbara Tuchman
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Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it…
— Libba Bray
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows…
— Beryl Markham
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