"When bankers get into business they usually destroy it."
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"Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry."
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"Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity."
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"As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing."
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"This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success."
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"The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others."
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"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
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"What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind."
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"Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich."
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"I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic."
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"My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music."
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"Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government."
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"I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading."
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"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."
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"Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him."
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"Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price."
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"There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split within the Republican Party. The Republican establishment, and Wall Street, and the bankers, and the corporate executives and so on, they don't want this. They don't want it at all. It's the part of the base that is mobilized that wants it."
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"A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining."
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"Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town."
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