Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bankers feel pressure to keep up with the Joneses...but you do deals when you can do them.

Bankers face a wide spectrum of businesses that are fighting for these deposits. Other banks, credit unions, brokerage firms, mutual fund companies and Internet banks are all looking to capture the same depositor dollars.

Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.

Eliot Spitzer

The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

The risk assessments provide bankers with more flexibility to tailor security measures to better safeguard their customers . . . than would a mandate from regulators,

There's not much for IPO investors or bankers to get excited about.

Is the business that they're trying to get into related to what they have done in the past? Are they going from being a banker to running a pizza place?

I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying companies that are repatriating large sums and doing what they can to get their business.

Investors have become completely convinced that we need to see the housing canary buckle under a little bit. If the housing market softens, then investors will view that as the canary in the cave that indicates that central bankers will not have to be as aggressive.

Investment bankers were being a bit too optimistic in terms of deal flow. The market has stabilized but I don't think there is a lot of enthusiasm yet. We are not yet in a strong, up market. Putting in 30 deals, when a couple of weeks ago there was hardly any, may have been too much to bear.

Jim Hightower

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Maximilien Robespierre

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

Milton Friedman

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.

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.

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.

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

It's easier to hire somebody with personality and teach them to be a banker than it is to hire a banker with personality, because they're pretty rare.

This is the time of year all the Wall Street bankers and traders basically know where they stand inside their organization. They've been given their bonuses, they've either been promoted or nor promoted, so it's a time when everybody considers what their options may be.

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.

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

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.

Alan Nunnelee

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

All you need to know is in the change in terms, ... The bankers have not been able to generate enough institutional interest.

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.

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.

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.

Chris O'Dowd

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

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.