Quotes with bankers

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  • Carroll Quigley The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Arthur Erickson 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.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Will Durant Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • John Berryman Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
    John Berryman
    American poet and scholar (1914 - 1972)
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Barry Schwartz Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
    A Crash Course for Central Bankers, Foreign Policy (September/October 2000)
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Edith Wharton There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bernie Sanders Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Lord Longford With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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