Bankers Quotes - Page 9

• Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

  Walter Bagehot

  Gone, Banking, Credit

  "Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market".

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• The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.

  Diane Coyle

  Powerful, Simple, Clothes

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

  Rachel Johnson

  Real, Eye, Home

  "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.

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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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• I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Frustration, Doctors

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• What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.

  Suze Orman

  Quality, Stockbrokers, Happens

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• Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Stupid, Believe

  "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Government, Police, Railroads

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• It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

  Andrew Simms

  Country, Ice Cream, Economic Value

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• The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.

  Gene Veith

  Mother, Father, Military

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• 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

  Writing, Rich, Poet

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• 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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• 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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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Break Even, Negative, Dollars

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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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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