Bankers Quotes

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, I’m a great guy.

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

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 way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

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.

You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

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 and price stability.

Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.