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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.
Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.
Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.
One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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.
Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.
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.
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.
A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
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.
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.