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I wouldn't finance a fad if I were a banker.
My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.
My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.
I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.
I've been focused on the West Coast economy and being a banker and lending in these markets.
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
If we want to be the banker to every Indian as we want to be, then we will have to use technology.
What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.
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.
Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.