Michael Gerber

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

American Writer

Anjelica Huston

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

American Actress

Jack Welch

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

American Businessman

Carroll Quigley

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.

Rory Stewart

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

British Politician

Barry Schwartz

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

American Psychologist

Robert Green Ingersoll

A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.

American Lawyer

Raghuram Rajan

What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

Indian Economist

Marc Faber

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

Yossi Vardi

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

Israeli Businessman

Usually associated with high status within financial institutions.

Industry Specific

'Banker' implies a more advanced role than a bank teller, often involved in decision making.

Not Just Tellers

Can refer to roles from personal banking to corporate finance.

Wide Scope

Emphasizes the advisory aspect of managing someone's finances.

Advisor Role

Using 'banker' suggests a level of trust in their financial expertise.

Trust Implication

Refers to a special role in card games, may not involve actual money handling.

Game Specific

In gaming, 'banker' isn't necessarily related to a financial profession.

Not Always Literal

Occurs in stone masonry, unrelated to finance or banking.

Trade Context

Refers to a workbench, not a person, in construction.

Specialized Equipment

 we can then define what success actually means to us, and without these different parts of the compass, it's impossible. We end up in the situation -- we have that scripted life that everybody seems to be living going up this ladder to nowhere. It's kind of like in Wall Street 2, if anybody saw that, the peon employee asks the big Wall Street banker CEO,

How to find work you...

 he actually moved across the street from us and he held a cocktail party to meet the neighbors and he says your your Don Tom's got it read some of your books they said great what are you doing he says well I used to be a banker and now I'm a gold miner and he tells me this amazing story he takes over this gold mine and his geologist can't tell him

Four principles for the...

 we can direct them to work another way. This is why we give bonuses to bankers and pay in all kinds of ways. And we really have this incredibly simplistic view of why people work, and what the labor market looks like. At the same time, if you think about it, there's all kinds of strange behaviors in the world around us.

What makes us feel good...

 This is what I decided to write about on the blog a couple of years ago. When I did, I was amazed by the response. Literally thousands of emails came in, from all different kinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of things. These are people who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers

Tim Urban: Inside the...

 You know, and then for us, for many of us, my life, the years just pass at a dizzying pace and I collected a couple of fancy degrees, I became a dad myself three times over. And I found myself wheeling and dealing as an investment banker and a private equity investor for many years.

James Rhee: The value of...

 And that's just office workers, bankers. We don't know how important hand washing is for flu -- shocking. One assumes it's a good idea to wash your hands a lot. But actually in scientific community there is great debate about what percentage of flu transmission between people

Laurie Garrett: What can...

 somewhat of an oasis for marine wildlife diving in Cortez bankers is like diving into an underwater kaleidoscope it's always changing with light and color gesture and motion and it's never the same twice and I think if more people

Beautiful “Underwater...

 you could be an investment banker or a graphic artist. There are a variety of things that matter in such a choice, like the excitement of the work, achieving financial security, having time to raise a family, and so on.

How to make hard choices...

 and to know who was trustworthy in the local community for paying back their mortgage. Well, the merchant bankers who brought the world to their knees may have been morally remiss, but they were cognitively very agile.

Why our IQ levels are...

 mine to axe him do you know the minister of telecom he said yes and here's a banker today's in the u.s. living there he said yes I come from the same state