Quotes on Bankers

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.