Laurent Fabius Quotes

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

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

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

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

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

Given my extensive background in foreign banks, writing about them came quite naturally to me. Thankfully, God has been kind to me.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

Banks are very big lobbyists. There is a long history in this country of prohibiting companies not in banking to get into the banking business.

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

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

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

The best way to become wealthy is through trade