Banker Quotations

I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.

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.

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.

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As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

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.

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

I was going to be an investment banker and got involved with a semipro team there just on a whim. It changed my life. I found out I loved football.

One lender could have been really strict and specific about the borrower providing the documentation to prove that they were affected by the Sept. 11 attacks, and another banker may not have, or may have had ulterior motives for approving loans.

Right now, farmers are being penalized for wanting to grow chicory and other crops because there isn't insurance on non-traditional crops. If the farmer goes to the bank, even the banker won't back the idea.

Most of the time people leave to follow leaders. Coldwell Banker became too corporate. Pacific Union became too corporate. A lot of agents go into real estate because they can be independent contractors and they are trying to get away from the corporate feel.

When the score is toted up, we think he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived.

We thought we would be going there as it is the first game and Wales see it as their banker green.

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

He's basically expressing the concerns that a central banker normally expresses at this point in the economic cycle, and that is that there are reasons to be cautious, ... Trading Places .

Goldman Sachs is the No. 1 banker in London, ... No. 1 banker in Europe in many businesses, and really has gone into China quite heavily.

He goes up to Congress, and they ask him questions about everything except monetary policy. It's unprecedented that a central banker is sort of viewed as an omniscient economic policy czar. It's not his responsibility.

Market nervousness can lead to counterparty nervousness, which can lead to rating agency nervousness and banker nervousness, and the company's financial flexibility could become impaired.

Marking 100 years in business is an incredible milestone; it is certainly an achievement of which everyone in the Coldwell Banker system can be very proud. It is truly satisfying to know that for all these years, Coldwell Banker professionals have been helping families buy and sell homes, and establishing a foundation for security, stability and growth. We like to think we have been helping them achieve the American dream, and hope for another hundred years of similar success.

Jim is an extremely talented banker with more than 15 years of experience in the energy sector. He will be a great asset to our team, and together with Mitch will provide our clients with outstanding advice and execution.

Retailers just have a closeness to a great mass of people that no investment banker on Wall Street will ever have, ... In a tragedy like this, nobody wants to be misunderstood as taking advantage of the situation. That would be gouging.

The Premier Office award recognizes both achievement and teamwork and is the most impressive designation awarded to individual Coldwell Banker offices. Glenn Little, Principal Broker/Owner of Coldwell Banker Miller's Real Estate Services, Inc. has established a standard of excellence for offices throughout the Coldwell Banker system.

You do not want to do what one female banker did. She went to Finland with three-inch heels, but they did not work in the snow,

We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never know, it might be your dentist, or your doctor or your banker serving you because everybody participates.

Every July, 400 of the most powerful media and tech industry chieftains meet at investment banker Herb Allen's conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, for what are usually convivial discussions of megatrends and megamergers. But this year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates III laid into Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer, according to two sources, including one who witnessed the exchange in a private room,

Is the business that they're trying to get into related to what they have done in the past? Are they going from being a banker to running a pizza place?

While there are some negatives in the record, when the score is toted up, we think he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived. His performance as chairman of the Fed has been impressive.

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.

I'm very sorry, I don't know my PIN number. I'm only a banker

The banker was conceived to create an element of conflict. Someone the audience can root against.

Any time you get more than one central banker in a room together the antennas are bound to go up and send a shiver down the market's spine.

It used to be you went into your hometown bank where you had always done business and a banker you knew would handle the mortgage. It was all local. Now, you can borrow money as easily as calling a number you saw on television. One loan and then another loan - it all starts to pile up.

It's critically important that people understand and know what their what their credit score is, ... Even if you're not going to buy a home for a year or two, you need to talk to a mortgage banker you trust. They're going to pull what's called a tri-merged credit report.

It's very satisfying to know that for all these years, Coldwell Banker personnel have been helping families buy and sell homes and establishing a foundation for security, stability and growth. We've been helping many folks achieve the American dream of homeownership.

Because baby boomers are in the prime of their lives and also in their prime real estate buying years, they are redefining the real estate industry. They certainly do not view themselves as senior citizens. With these new marketing materials, the Coldwell Banker sales associate will be much better equipped to market to the most important demographic group in U.S. history.

A private banker is really a good old trustworthy friend.

The most worrisome aspect of Greenspan's European remarks is that he is in denial, and as long as the most powerful central banker in the world is kidding himself that he knows what he is doing, we all have to fasten our seatbelts.

The Greenspan era has coincided with a period when the global economy has made the job of a central banker easier.

It's not fun, but I don't care. They need to know this stuff. They won't remember it now, but hopefully one day when they're sitting with their insurance agents or banker or whomever, they'll say 'Oh yeah.' They'll remember it then.

There is one store, and one banker above all; the merchants deal in the one commodity

It's easier to hire somebody with personality and teach them to be a banker than it is to hire a banker with personality, because they're pretty rare.

There's a nurse, a teacher, a banker and a university technician.

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain