Ravi Subramanian Quotes

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

I write about banking because it is something I'm familiar with. Also, I don't have to do much research on it.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.

I've been focused on the West Coast economy and being a banker and lending in these markets.

I wouldn't in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

In banking, it was my responsibility to deliver investment opportunities and solutions to hedge fund clients, and at Bloomberg, it's my job to break down news that matters to our viewers and readers.

Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

My guess is the big Chinese banks will be in 100 countries by then. They will have very sophisticated operations, and they may very well have bought banks around the world in countries that allow it. I mean, I don't think the American government would allow them to buy JPMorgan. But they will be able to buy a sizable big bank in the U.S. at some point. Whether they do or not, or if it's allowed or not, I don't know.

I happen to love financial services.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

I worked during summers on the foreign exchange desk as a dollar/yen broker for Noonan, Astley & Pierce. I used to write the chairman notes about how he could improve his business. And I met Bernie Cantor through this job.

London is a very important financial centre.

Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent, and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face.

Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own capital. It's capitalism at work, where the rewards tend to go to the managers rather than the investors.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.