Quotes by Bankers One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. Ogden Nash wisdom bankers needs Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer. Ogden Nash money bankers There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split within the Republican Party. The Republican establishment, and Wall Street, and the bankers, and the corporate executives and so on, they don't want this. They don't want it at all. It's the part of the base that is mobilized that wants it. Noam Chomsky wall party bankers When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. Oscar Wilde together bankers art I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair. Pankaj Mishra political experts bankers The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. Pankaj Mishra longing kind bankers I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie. Peter Jacobson doctors ties bankers Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do. Ralph Steadman mean bankers thinking I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good. Raymond C. Hoiles politician men bankers Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought. Robert F. Engle risk people bankers A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even. Robert Graves rich writing bankers Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. Robert Reich socialism rich bankers If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is. Robert W. Hemphill commercial-banks dollars bankers Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. Robert W. Hemphill commercial-banks money bankers My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant. Roger Tory Peterson bird father bankers I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn't help, then being beheaded. Roseanne Barr pay believe bankers Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants. Sadiq Khan migrants blame bankers 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 he looks like an investment banker. The only part of me that’s nervous is my checkbook. (Kat) Sherrilyn Kenyon mother dresses bankers 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 one of them? At least we need the food; they do it just for profit margins. (Phoebe) Sherrilyn Kenyon soul people bankers 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 long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker. Susanna Clarke kings long bankers «123456789»