Central Banker Quotes

#1. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!

Dada Bhagwan

#2. The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Alan Blinder

#3. But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

Lewis H. Lapham

#4. It's a finger snapping kind of day.

Coco J. Ginger

#5. Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

Nicki Minaj

#6. We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Clay Shirky

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

Marc Faber

#8. People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

Emmett Shear

#9. His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn't like it.

Kristan Higgins

#10. The art of work ... It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Wilferd Peterson

#11. Mario Draghi became the first major central banker to cut a key interest rate below zero as he unveiled a series of radical measures to stave off a crippling bout of deflation, and signalled his willingness to take further action.

Anonymous

#12. The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Ben Bernanke

#13. Magic Kingdom's tree goes up on Dec. 9.

Julie Neal

#14. 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

#15. Wealth is not the same as income.

Thomas J. Stanley

#16. No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.

Milton Friedman

#17. Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan