Bankers Quotes - Page 3

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

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.

A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

The bankers' Satanic Conspiracy is the source of anti Semitism. The sooner Jews rise up to oppose it; the sooner anti-Semitism will end.. Obviously, many Christians are involved. When I criticize Rockefeller, no one says anything about 'anti-Christianism.'

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.