Sajid Javid Quotes

Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

Bankers don't get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair out from dealing with 18- and 19-year-old kids, it's a pretty cool job.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.

I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.

I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

I want to work in a bank, definitely. Hopefully, my acting career will go well. But if it doesn't, I go to a bank. If it does, then even at the age of 40, I will still go to a bank, but I have to work in a bank, because I'm really fond of taxation and accounts and investments and all of that. So I will do it. At some point, I will, yes.

There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

Many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all.

I think India's growth itself will give opportunities for Indian banks to become substantially bigger.

When I moved from corporate to consumer banking, I brought a lot of synergy with me.

The Indian banking industry has always been full of competition, and there is enough room for growth.

I, thank God, don't engage in punditry anymore. That part of my life is behind me.

My belief is India's banking industry will continue to grow at two and a half times the GDP growth rate.

The banking industry has traditionally been characterized by physical branches, privileged access to financial data, and distinct expertise in analyzing such data.

I went to work on Wall Street for about three or four years with an investment bank, got certified: series 3, series 7, and all this stuff.

I happen to love financial services.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

The financial service industry has an image issue.

I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations.

When I graduated from UCLA, I actually started interviewing for banking jobs. But at some point I realized a career in banking felt more like a continuation of school than a passion.