Quotes and Sayings About Bankers
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The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
-- Aaron Russo -
The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
-- Alan Blinder -
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.
-- Alan Furst -
It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.
-- Alex Jones -
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
-- Allen Tate -
It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay
-- Andrew Simms -
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
-- Anna Louise Strong -
When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
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.
-- Arthur Erickson -
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 or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
-- Arundhati Roy -
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.
-- Ben Bernanke -
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
-- Ben Bernanke -
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.
-- Bill Bonner -
Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?
-- Bill Gross -
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
-- Carroll Quigley -
There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
-- Cary Grant -
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
-- Charles Kettering -
I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like ***** addicts.
-- Charlie Munger -
Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.
-- Cynthia McKinney -
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
-- Dalton Trumbo -
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.
-- David Riesman -
How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.
-- Donald Trump -
The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin -
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.
-- Eduardo Saverin -
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
-- Eli Broad -
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.
-- Emilio Ambasz -
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
-- Euvin Naidoo -
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf
