Bankers Quotes - Page 10

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

  Barack Obama

  Running, Wall, Cat

  "Obama Defends Afghanistan Timetable Plan". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, multimedia.cbs.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?

  Gay Talese

  Girl, Baseball, Brother

  "The Yankees’ Field Of Screams" By Thomas B. Edsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2009.

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• It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Mistake

  Television interview, 1987.

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• The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.

  James Grant

  Running, Art, Safety

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• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Reality, Expansion, Outcomes

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

  David Riesman

  Car, Week, Hours

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.244, Transaction Publishers

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• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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

  Ben Bernanke

  Fighting, Benefits, Credibility

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• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

  Eli Broad

  Bored, Lawyer, My Time

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• Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

  Billy Childish

  Art, Hero, Challenging Work

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• 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.

  Steve Daines

  Boys, Issues, Community

  "MT-1: Daines-Gillan Race Keeps Low Profile". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

  Ogden Nash

  Money

  'Bankers are Just Like Everybody Else, Except Richer' by Ogden Nash, 1954.

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• Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

  William D. Cohan

  Wall, Four, Talent

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• George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

  Peter York

  Father, Yale, Class

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• 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

  Father, Bird, Littles

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• Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Wise, Business, Ems

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Race, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Nice, Awful

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• As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

  Euvin Naidoo

  Information, Flow, Investment

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• The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wise, Jobs, Lying

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• 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

  People, Want, Bread

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• Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

  Jeff Abbott

  Smart, Judging, Dumb

  Jeff Abbott (2002). “Black Jack Point”, Signet

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• I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

  Agathe Snow

  Running, Heart, Cities

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• 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, Thinking, Bows

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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