B Quotes
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“banker: (n.) scam of the earth.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer”
“Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.”
“Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.”
“Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.”
“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard”
Source: The Lessons of History
“Bankers know that in order to remain a healthy and solvent bank it needs to make investments and receive monthly cashflow with interest from the loans of its money”
“Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.”
“Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.”
“bankers steal money for the same reason that heroin addicts do. They've been put in a position where they cannot get the money they need by honest means. In an egalitarian society that happens a lot less.”
“Bankers themselves govern the Fed to some extent, and then there's the classic revolving door where Fed officials come from and then go back to the financial sector. Fed officials tend to believe that the institution should have a large measure of independence from democratic control, even though in law it is under the ostensible control of Congress.”
“Bankers throughout time have used what we call ‘‘The Five C’s of Credit’ as a basis of evaluating the worthiness of a potential borrower.”
Source: Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing
“Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue disproportionately to the rich and super-rich.”
“Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.”
“Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.”
“Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.”
“Banking is a branch of the information business.”
“Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.”
“Banking is necessary - banks are not.”
“Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.”
“Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.”
Source: Ambassador's Journal
“Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.”
“Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.”
“Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.”
“Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers
own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to
create deposits, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough
deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all
the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear,
for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish
to remain the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery,
let them continue to create deposits.”
“Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.”
“Bankrupsy stays on your record for 7-10yrs. That gives you an idea how long it takes to rebuild trust.”
“Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.”
“Bankrupt"
One midnight, deep in starlight still,
I dreamed that I received this bill:
(- - - - IN ACCOUNT WITH LIFE - - - -):
Five thousand breathless dawns all new;
Five thousand flowers fresh in dew;
Five thousand sunsets wrapped in gold;
One-million snow-flakes served ice-cold;
Five quiet friends; one baby's love;
One white-mad sea with clouds above;
One hundred music-haunted dreams
Of moon-drenched roads and hurrying streams;
Of prophesying winds, and trees;
Of silent stars and browsing bees;
One June night in a fragrant wood;
One heart that loved and understood.
I wondered when I waked at day,
How—how in God's name—I could pay!”
“Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos”
“Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average”
“Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.”
Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism
“Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money”
“Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.”
“Bankruptcy favors the rich and shames the poor.”
Source: The Beggars of the Mercury Lights: We the Other People
“Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.”
“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
Source: People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans
“Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.”
“Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.”
“Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.”
“Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?”
“Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.”
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
“Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.”
“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.”
“Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.”
“Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.”