#banker

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#banks #continue #control #cost #create

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

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

— Gerry Spence

#banker #client #i #never #represent

A banker is a man who will lend you the short sleeve shirt off his back and demand a long sleeve one in return. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #interest #lending #funny

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. ↗

— Mark Twain

#bankers #humor #humor

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult? ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#economy #society #wages #wealth #men

In this world . . . It's Heaven when: The French are chefs The British are police The Germans are engineers The Swiss are bankers And the Italians are lovers It's Hell when: The English are chefs The Germans are police The French are engineers The Swiss are lovers And the Italians are bankers. ↗

— Hidekaz Himaruya

#chefs #engineers #heaven #hell #hetalia

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

— Ben Bernanke

#appointment #banker #benefit #brings #central

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. ↗

— Will Durant

#history #hoard #inflationary #know #last