Chapter VI https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Things Become More Serious, Section IV, p 115 <br class="br">The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
“[A banker is] a man who will lend you money if you can prove to him that you don't need it.”
Joe E. Lewis (1902–1971) American singer and comedian
Quoted by Leonard Lyons in his column https://secure.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/151726578.html, 15 October 1944
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
My Lady's Lamentation, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, edited by William Ernst Browning (1910); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Source: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50-51
“In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world”
Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 253
“A banker's charter written by bankers.”
Joe Higgins (1949) Irish socialist politician
The view of Joe Higgins on the Keane report on mortgage arrears The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1020/1224306124490.html
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
Misattributed
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)
Context: Most bankers dwell in marble halls,
Which they get to dwell in because they encourage deposits and discourage withdrawals,
And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it,
Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
Patrice O'Neal (1969–2011) American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor
May 10, 2011
The Opie and Anthony Radio show
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (30 September 1968), quoted in The Times (1 October 1968), p. 6
1960s
