Banker Quotes - page 3

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. (Tom Ford)
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. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his Banker, but his drafts are seldom honored since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital and is not yet in possession. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
[I]f your banker comes in one day wearing a diaper, speaking gibberish, you're going to pull your money out of that checking account. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it, Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. View quote
Ogden Nash
The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence. View quote
Joseph Schumpeter
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it. View quote
Charlie Munger
The banker is, as I have noted, by training and because of his position, totally unsuited to the conduct of industry. If, therefore, the controllers of credit have lately acquired this very large power, is it not to be taken as a sign that there is something wrong with the financial system that gives to finance instead of to service the predominant power in industry? It was not the industrial acumen of the bankers that brought them into the management of industry. View quote
Henry Ford