Quotes About Financiers

#1. A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Joe Abercrombie

#2. OUR
SOCIETY IS
CONTROLLED BY LAWYERS
AND FINANCIERS
"PROBLEM
MAKERS WE NEED TO EVOME
TO A SOCIETY LEAD BY
CREATORS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS PROBLEM
SOLVERS. SURELY WE WILL
HAVE MORE INGENUITY
COOPERATION AND
PEACE

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#3. In the U.S. more than any other place, the banking system is insane. Millions of Americans lost their houses. Because of what? Because of the banking system. This American banking system is also coming to Europe. We can say today that the banks and high financiers run the world.

Costa-Gavras

#4. Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

Chris Chocola

#5. Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

James Hansen

#7. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

Henry Ford

#8. There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Lili Taylor

#9. When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

Francis Ford Coppola

#10. When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.

Alexandre Dumas

#12. [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

Jeffrey Rosen

#13. Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

Steven Rattner

#14. It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.

Chris Hegedus

#15. Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Christina Stead

#16. While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

Gary Hamel

#17. We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Greg Ip

#18. The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Alex Winter

#19. Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as "clients," is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly place. Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders.

Michael Lewis

#20. I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.

Walt Disney

#21. Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish

Diana Gabaldon

#22. Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.

Richard Karn

#23. Henry Lloyd was with Darrow when they toured the mine. It was a dreadful experience, Lloyd said, "like a foretaste of the inferno."

"You might as well get used to it," Darrow told him. Heaven was reserved for Wall Street financiers. Infidels like themselves would be rooming with Satan.

John A. Farrell

#24. The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

Charles Lindbergh

#25. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Carroll Quigley

#26. When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

Dougray Scott

#27. When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

John Krokidas

#28. Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Harvey Weinstein

#29. I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Michael Caine

#30. He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

Otto Von Bismarck

#31. There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

Clint Eastwood

#32. The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#33. Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Robert Reich

#34. Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you

Lynne Ramsay

#35. Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Marlene Dietrich