Top 175 Banker Quotes & Sayings

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?

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

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan.

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

I'm going to start by making a confession. My name's Sajid Javid. And I used to be a banker. No point denying it.

I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned how people make jobs.

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.

We all have banker problems. We all have issues.

Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

It would be too glib, not a hundred per cent true, to say that my father's career as a banker was what made me a writer. But it would be slightly true, and it was certainly the case that his work as a banker made me see that the trade-offs people make between their work and their lives are often badly skewed.

I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

No one ever felt sorry for a banker.

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.

What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

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.

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.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

Interesting stories appeal to me, much like it appeals to the audience. Or else I might as well become a banker and make more money.

Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

I wouldn't finance a fad if I were a banker.

I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

I've been focused on the West Coast economy and being a banker and lending in these markets.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.

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.