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Quotes About Bankers

the power balance has tilted dramatically away from the bankers.
~ Ron Chernow
One British writer describes these big bankers and industrialists, who prided themselves on their "practicality" in backing Hitler, as "too innocent for politics." William Shirer says that they were "politically childish." In fact, their "innocence" was anti-intellectuality, and their "political childishness" was (in effect) philosophical pragmatism.
~ Leonard Peikoff
All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.
~ Lindsey Davis
The other world improvers point out that parliament is an alliance of monarchs, lords, bishops, lawyers, merchants, bankers, brokers, industrialists, military men, landlords and civil servants who run it to protect their wealth AND FOR NO OTHER REASON.
~ Alasdair Gray
Não há nada de mais imoral do que roubar sem riscos. É o risco que nos diferencia dos banqueiros e dos seus émulos que praticam o roubo legalizado com a cobertura do governo. Não te inculquei a minha arte para te tornares um ladrão de cinema cuja única preocupação é não desagradar ao seu público.
~ Albert Cossery
The source of the outrage, remember, isn't that bankers got paid lots of money—because we always knew that—but rather that they got paid lots of money for what now seems like disastrously bad performance.
~ Duncan J. Watts
President John F. Kennedy, like Lincoln, attempted to curtail the bankers by diminishing the power of the Federal Reserve. In June 1963, he issued $4.2 billion in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the Federal Reserve System and also took steps to shift power away from the wealthy corporate elite. According
~ Jim Marrs
Nick Rockefeller, a participant in the World Economic Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, may have revealed the agenda of the New World Order in a casual comment. According to the late Hollywood producer Aaron Russo, Rockefeller told him, "The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
~ Jim Marrs
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
~ Charles Duhigg
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.
~ James Buchan
If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share.
~ Stephanie Coontz
The 1907 panic would be the last time that bankers loomed so much larger than regulators in a crisis.
~ Ron Chernow
You know that with bankers nothing but a written document will be valid.
~ Alexandre Dumas
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
~ Edith Wharton
Bankers don't get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair out from dealing with 18- and 19-year-old kids, it's a pretty cool job.
~ Tom Herman
Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will go to jail and bear the same brunt of punishment as any other criminal.
~ Andrea Leadsom
Necessary rules and laws keep you from adapting. Inevitably, everything comes crashing down. It's like bankers thinking they buy the future. 'Power in my time! To hell with my descendants!'" "What are descendants doing for me?
~ Frank Herbert
Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»
~ Frank Herbert
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
~ Carroll Quigley
The problem isn't with the choices made by central bankers. The problem is that they possess the power to make any choice at all.
~ Ron Paul
In reality, Senator Shelby's Financial Regulatory Improvement Act is nothing more than a wish list for the Wall Street bankers that fund his campaign.
~ Ron Crumpton
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.
~ Adam Lashinsky
Lowest of all were bankers and auctioneers, who made money without actually producing anything—activities that, to right-thinking people, had the aspect of a species of magic.
~ John Maddox Roberts
Banqueros de postín como Juan March, que a esas alturas ya habían puesto la pasta a buen recaudo en el extranjero, empezaron a ofrecerse para financiar un golpe de Estado como Dios manda, y algunos destacados generales contactaron discretamente con los gobiernos de Alemania e Italia para sondear cómo verían el sartenazo a la República.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte