Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm very sorry, I don't know my PIN number. I'm only a banker

John Hall

Initially, we've always strongly objected to any retailer having the coins before it's been put through the monetary system. As one of my favorite bankers said, these U.S. coins aren't Beanie Babies. It's the U.S. monetary system. There are rules and procedures that have to be followed.

Carroll Quigley

The bankers made loans to business so that the volume of money increased faster than the increase in goods. The result was inflation.

The need is $325 million of cash. That is what our investment bankers tell us. That's what our creditor committee tells us. ALPA is fervently urging the court to say it isn't so. We're telling them it is so. We wish we didn't need $325 million of cash. But the need is real.

Any time you get more than one central banker in a room together the antennas are bound to go up and send a shiver down the market's spine.

It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.

created a structure under which not just investment bankers but also research analysts and sales personnel all reported to him, and all devoted their efforts to securing for him an ever greater share of Silicon Valley's investment banking business.

Taubman's shares have been heavily marketed by his bankers for years with no buyers,

It's broadening out that industry depth that's brought in quality bankers into the place. The stability we've gained from the IPO is good for the people (at Lazard) and good for our clients.

It's critically important that people understand and know what their what their credit score is, ... Even if you're not going to buy a home for a year or two, you need to talk to a mortgage banker you trust. They're going to pull what's called a tri-merged credit report.

It looks like it's going to be another great week, even with a lot of people focused on higher rates. Investment bankers are putting together a lot of interesting deals, with the B2B cattle one being no exception.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I've never particularly liked bankers.

The Greenspan era has coincided with a period when the global economy has made the job of a central banker easier.

These are long-term leases and these banks can stay in our stores for 15 years and in some cases even more. We're committed to community bankers and we're committed to what they bring to our stores and their customers. We're their allies.

This historic milestone speaks to the favorable economic conditions we have recently experienced as well as to the efforts of bankers and regulators to manage risks in the industry.

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

John Berryman

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

George Murphy

All right. You know some bankers who are slick with a slice of secret sin. You've seen some bakers and candlestick makers who are no credit to their profession. Yet you don't damn banking and baking, and candlestick making because of them.

And hard-nosed bankers from New York are going to take a pretty clear view on the risk profile and the economics of the plant in Bangladesh.

Henry Ford

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

John Maynard Keynes

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

Francis Spufford

You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

Dalton Trumbo

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Jean Reno

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

We were surprised that bankers and accountants came up so high. I really expected lawyers, maybe television producers and radio announcers (to rank high). In my experiences, they're pretty bad.

Laurent Fabius

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

Pankaj Mishra

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

Robert Reich

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Yossi Vardi

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

Yanis Varoufakis

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.