Bankers Quotes - Page 16

• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Men, May

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• Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

  Allen Tate

  Poetry, Mysterious, Said

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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• Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or p0rnographer:Trust in your gut.

  Larry Flynt

  Success, Business, Believe

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

  Katy Lederer

  People, Serious, Finance

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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• RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Rabbits

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• Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Fire, Agency, Light

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• I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.

  Jake Halpern

  Goal, Guy, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

  William Safire

  Sports, Team, Government

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

  Mick Jagger

  Girlfriend, Ministry, Culture

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• A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

  Edmund Wilson

  Country, Giving Up, Hands

  Edmund Wilson (1952). “The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties”

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• Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

  Will Durant

  Secret, Fluctuation, Knows

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• Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

  Donald Trump

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Sound

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