Quotes by Bankers The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. Mason Cooley kissing baby bankers The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn. Mason Cooley cat bankers thinking A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining. Mark Twain investing rain bankers Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police. Michael Crichton police government bankers When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors. Michael Hudson running people bankers I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up. Michael Hudson running bankers thinking I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. Mick Jagger ministry girlfriend bankers Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one. Milton Friedman mistake trying bankers No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money. Milton Friedman increase rapids bankers I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. Muhammad Yunus money people bankers They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. Muhammad Yunus money people bankers 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 neck on the line. Nassim Nicholas Taleb agency lines bankers When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation Napoleon Bonaparte government leader bankers The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others. Nassim Nicholas Taleb expenses bonus bankers 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 banking past bankers Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price. Nassim Nicholas Taleb pay-the-price mistake bankers Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress Nicholas Biddle political suffering bankers There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism. Noam Chomsky trying bankers thinking The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown. Nouriel Roubini stress littles bankers Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer Ogden Nash funny-money banking bankers «123456789»