Sergio Ermotti Quotes

The financial service industry has an image issue.

What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

The financial advice market presents an impossible conundrum: in order to work with a financial planner, you must have enough money to be of interest. In order to amass enough money, it is critical to work with a financial planner. Most financial plans come with a $1,500-$3,000 price tag - numbers that are simply out of reach for most Americans.

My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

For a long time, there had been no organization dedicated solely to going to toe-to-toe with the financial industry, on any issue, no matter how complex or obscure. That’s what we do

At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.

I don't think that the financial services industry and that banking in particular are any different than any other part of the economy, any other industry outside banking.

Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.

Digital currency attempts to disrupt the financial industry, and it's potentially threatening to the existing financial services industry, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85 to 88 percent male, and that is part of why investing for women they tell us feels unapproachable because they don't see people who look like them.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.

Money confounds subordination.