Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
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.
Really, if that’s the case, you need to stop letting your mother dress you funny. It’s hard to take anyone serious as a killer when he looks like an investment banker. The only part of me that’s nervous is my checkbook. (Kat)
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.
Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.
Shopkeepers are not bankers.
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers.
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.
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 itNever lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom. . . have been thrust out of all public employment. . . a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.
Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption. . . The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.