Bankers Quotes - Page 14

• The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Kind, Longing, Investment

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Pay The Price, Benefits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Bonus, Expenses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No one ever felt sorry for a banker.

  Dominic Lawson

  Sorry, Felt

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• Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

  Robert Reich

  Socialism, Rich, Capitalism

  "The Nation Has a Bad Case of Mad Treasury Disease". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2009.

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• 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.

  Anthony Sampson

  Destiny, Purpose, World

  Anthony Sampson (1983). “The money lenders”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Simple, Short Notice, Banking

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned how people make jobs.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Window

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• I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is.  I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it

  Bruce Bruce

  Believe, Mean, Average

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• Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Organization, Kgb

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• So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature things like Merrill's recapitalization of Sierra Pacific. I guess including "helping Enron achieve its earnings goals in 1999" might be a little awkward given that Merrill Lynch bankers are currently on trial in Houston for that "accomplishment."

  Bethany McLean

  Years, Accomplishment, Goal

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lord, Should, Anxious

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• 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

  Men, Politician, Away From You

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• Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black And White, Differences, Justice

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

  Nick Offerman

  Artist, Soda, Able

  "'Parks and Recreation's' Nick Offerman on Mustaches and Being Tackled by Robin Givens (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing unemployment; businessmen earn their livelihood by producing products and rendering services where ever they are needed.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Benefits, Bakers, Unemployment

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• The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

  Mario Batali

  Taken, Hands, Way

  "Celebrity Chef Mario Batali Settles Lawsuit With His Waitstaff". Interview with Carrie Kahn, nhpr.org. March 8, 2012.

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  Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

  Waylon Jennings

  Dog, Baby, Soul

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• 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

  Wall, Long, Management

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• 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

  People, Trying, Titles

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• There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Character, Men, Past

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• But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

  Will Rogers

  Business, People, Devil

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

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• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Summer, Dust, Years

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