Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

I do not dislike your bank any more than all banks.

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

Year after year the Banker's slice of the world's asset baskets has been growing and growing. The Banker has become almighty.

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!

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

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

We survived for hundreds of years under the old banking structure. You'd have clearing banks, then merchant banks doing the racy stuff, and then building societies where you'd join a waiting list for a mortgage. But then banks started buying stockbrokers, doing mortgages, and you ended up with these big banking groups doing everything.

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

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of the most successful retail and commercial bankers. We do a great job for customers.

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks.

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.