Bank Quote by Hugh Jackman

Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell our services…

— Angus Deaton

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I…

— Muhammad Yunus

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

— Jim Yong Kim

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

— Jim Yong Kim

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

— Jim Yong Kim

I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small,…

— John Lanchester

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and…

— Vladimir Putin

But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it…

— Jamie Dimon

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of…

— Richelieu Dennis

“The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the…

— Amartya Sen

If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank…

— James Wolfensohn