Welcome to our collection of banker quotes, where wisdom, wit, and insight from the world of finance are encapsulated in memorable phrases. Banking, as one of the fundamental pillars of modern economies, has garnered a wealth of perspectives and reflections from its practitioners, observers, and critics alike. From legendary financiers to contemporary analysts, the realm of banking offers a rich tapestry of thoughts that illuminate its complexities, challenges, and triumphs.
In this curated selection, we delve into the minds of bankers past and present, exploring their thoughts on the intricacies of finance, the dynamics of markets, and the essence of wealth management. Whether you’re an aspiring banker seeking inspiration, a seasoned professional reflecting on your journey, or simply an enthusiast curious about the inner workings of the financial world, these quotes offer glimpses into the ethos, ethos, and ethos of banking. So, without further ado, delve into the wisdom of the ages, and let the words of these banking luminaries spark new insights and perspectives in your own journey through the world of finance. Now, without further delay, let’s explore the enlightening quotes awaiting you below.
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. Kara Swisher
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. Lionel Shriver
Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did. Amor Towles
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. W. Averell Harriman
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. Warren Christopher
I wouldn’t finance a fad if I were a banker. Ken Hakuta
If you are a banker… you can do that for all your life, but if you are a footballer once you hit your mid 30s, you have to find something else to do. Stephan Lichtsteiner
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
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. Robert Green Ingersoll
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. Parineeti Chopra
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. Kevin Spacey
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. Jacqueline Novogratz
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. Justin Kan
I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I’d marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn’t raised to set the world on fire. Dani Shapiro
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. Drummond Money-Coutts
When I trade, I don’t have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it’s not his neck on the line. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. Ana Patricia Botin
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. Arundhati Roy
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. Jacqueline Novogratz
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. Ronnie Screwvala
My father was an investment banker, a stock broker. Marc Randolph
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. Francis Spufford
It would be too glib, not a hundred per cent true, to say that my father’s career as a banker was what made me a writer. But it would be slightly true, and it was certainly the case that his work as a banker made me see that the trade-offs people make between their work and their lives are often badly skewed. John Lanchester
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. Sajid Javid
Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family… I mean, of the bank. Ana Patricia Botin
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. James Surowiecki
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? Bob Diamond
Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It’s just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones. Safra A. Catz
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker? Etel Adnan
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. Charlie Worsham
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. Laura Wasser
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. Magnus Scheving
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.’ Kurt Braunohler
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. Kirk Franklin
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. Ron Chernow
Whether you’re a banker or a botanist – the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling. Barry Gardiner
My parents, or Asian parents in general, they’re like, ‘You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker’ – all that’s laid out. As a kid that’s what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially. Eric Nam
Is there anyone I wouldn’t take as a client? Well, I’d never represent a banker. Gerry Spence
My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government. Urmila Matondkar
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. Leslie Mann
Interesting stories appeal to me, much like it appeals to the audience. Or else I might as well become a banker and make more money. Sobhita Dhulipala
When I moved to New York, I was dead broke and lost my mind, and my girlfriend dumped me and was with some banker making money. I wandered by Jane Curtin’s house, and she’s like, ‘Come in here, dear. I’ll make you lunch. Tell me, what’s going on in your life?’ Donal Logue
When ‘If God Was a Banker’ became a success, it changed my entire perspective. I wanted to write more and wanted to be lot more successful as a writer. Ravi Subramanian
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they’re a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I’m gay. Larry Kramer
Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S. Marc Faber
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business. Jamie Dimon
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I’ve been focused on the West Coast economy and being a banker and lending in these markets. Steve Mnuchin
As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You’ve dreamed of the ‘right’ ones, you’ve projected ‘real’ ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you’ve imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you’ve set. Michael Gerber
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. Jean Reno
I didn’t want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn’t get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker. Owain Yeoman
What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing. Raghuram Rajan
In ‘Bhram,’ I have played an investment banker who is Sheetal Menon’s love interest. I am very happy I did this film not only because it is my last film from this genre but also because it has been conceptualised and shot very well. Dino Morea
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? Alan King
My dad was a banker, and I’ve always had an interest in it. John Layfield
I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author. Amish Tripathi
If we want to be the banker to every Indian as we want to be, then we will have to use technology. Arundhati Bhattacharya
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. Eduardo Saverin
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. Matt Kuchar
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president. Herbert Hoover
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. Allison Williams
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn’t have rules that prevent it. Charlie Munger
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. Ben Bernanke
For an investment banker, the choice between a payment that doubles with every square on the chessboard and one that doubles with every other square is more important than any other part of the contract. Who cares whether the payment is in pennies, pounds, or pesos? Paul Romer
It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis – a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day – or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn’t a very difficult decision. Dara Khosrowshahi
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. Tom Ford
At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about being an investment banker. I just didn’t know what I wanted to do with myself. I think the thing that best suits me about being a C.E.O. is that you get to exercise many different talents and wear many different hats. Glenn Kelman
There’s the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It’s not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it’s like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. David Chang
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. Anthony Quinn
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class – Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we’re at it, his father, George H. W. ‘Poppy’ Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis’ U.S. banker in the 1930s). Peter York
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. Barbara Ehrenreich
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker. Yossi Vardi
I don’t think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I’d give up. I’d become a banker. Peter Frampton
I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business. Sallie Krawcheck
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. Yoko Ono
I think creating of any sort, whatever line you’re in, is paramount – you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything – I think that when you create, you’re closest to God and yourself. Ellen Greene
Chicago’s privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm’s investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much. Rick Perlstein
