If you're an original thinker you are going get told 'no' a lot and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

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.

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 went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

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?

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

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.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health which never happened.

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.