Top 40 Banker Quotes

Companies are bought not sold, an investment banker told me that once and it is very true. Basically what it means is you can’t control selling your company, you can only sell it if somebody wants to buy it, and you need someone to want to buy it.

What I want to say about the Kanye thing is that whoever wants me to be in their life – whether it’s a rapper, celebrity, janitor, banker, newsman, teacher – my job is to be a light for God and Christ. Whoever I’m with and whatever I’m doing, that’s my purpose.

You don’t have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

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

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.

Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker’s job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

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

You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass – but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing.

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.

Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, ‘I’m just going to look like a banker.’

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.

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.

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

Actually I’d had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

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.

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

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

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we’re struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don’t know what we’d talk about.

I have never had a situation where an investee company would have a good value by having a banker. Investment bankers are there to please future clients. You are a temporary client; they are therefore not to get you the best valuation.

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?

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

I have a backup plan. Everybody should have a backup plan. I am a banker. The day you all get bored of me and don’t want to watch my films, I will go back to banking.

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.

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

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

You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance – a banker with no time with his kids, he’s not successful. If he doesn’t have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success – that is a mistake.

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

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

To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with – an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don’t neglect Internet research.

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

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

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

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.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

I didn’t join a bank because my father worked in a bank or because I thought I was going to be a banker or because I thought I was going to be where I am today.

I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.

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.

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in ‘American Psycho.’ In 1993, every day was ‘let’s get lost.’ I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.