Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.
Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.
The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
It has been the bankers' destiny. . . to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.
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.
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
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.
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
I've never particularly liked bankers.