35+ Famous Bankers Captions for Instagram

by Andreas Ramos

Here you will get the fabulous collection of inspirational, humorous banker Instagram captions, great banker captions, and famous banker quotes, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Bankers Captions for Instagram

Best Bankers Quotes
Best Bankers Quotes

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

“A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn’t have rules that prevent it.”

“The ‘sound’ banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.”

“In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank … is the profitability of the loans it makes.””You don’t run a business hoping you don’t have a recession.”

“With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.”

“In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It’s the foundation for every other measure of success. There’s almost no room for error.”

“When you think about what in fact distinguishes a bank as a lender, it’s how much money it loses on the assets it chooses to take risk with.”

Famous Bankers Captions for Instagram
Famous Bankers Captions for Instagram

“Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.”

“Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.”

“It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.”
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.”

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

“I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.”

“Irrational lenders come and go — mostly they go!”

Great Bankers Captions

Famous Bankers Captions for Instagram
Famous Bankers Captions for Instagram

“The inescapable truth in that there are just too many banks in this country chasing too few customers.”

“The goal is not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.”

“The United States, to be sure, has 13,000 banks, but the problem is that it does not have 13,000 bankers.”

“There are more banks than bankers, and that’s fundamentally the problem.”

“When you’re in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you’re selling money, you’re in a commodity business.”

“Banking is very good business if you don’t do anything dumb.”

“Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.”

Best Bankers Quotes
Best Bankers Quotes

“Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.”

“I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.”

“No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.”

“I am personally waiting for the first Hollywood epic that will have a banker as its hero, but that probably won’t happen anytime soon.”

“Bank confidence is a fragile reed, and a troubled bank is damaged by any rumors, true or not.”

“Don’t do anything stupd. And don’t waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we’ll buy them.”

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Great Bankers Captions
Great Bankers Captions

“Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.”

“You can’t control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.”

“Banking is necessary. Banks are not.”

“It is in the nature of an industry whose structure is competitive and whose conduct is driven by supply to have cycles that only end badly.”

“Good Banking is produced not by good laws, but by good bankers.”

“It’s not just whether you tell the truth. It’s whether you even shave the truth.”

“There’s only so much good business out there.”

“It is nowhere written that banks cannot fail.”

Great Bankers Captions
Great Bankers Captions

“Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone.”

“Despite our best efforts to find other alternatives, certain banks are too big to let fail and some of the smaller ones cannot be saved.”

“Analyzing or investing in Bank is like cohabiting with a two-ton rhinoceros: When it’s good, it’s not very good, and when it’s bad, it’s really beastly.”

“If commentators and students of the U.S. banking system could be said to agree on any single point, it would be that the system now in place is absurdly complex and inefficient.”

“Money never declines. Money just moves.”

“I think it’s essential to remember that just about everything is cyclical. There’s little I’m certain of, but these things are true: Cycles always prevail eventually.”

About Andreas Ramos

Andreas Ramos is a social media enthusiast who loves writing captions for Instagram. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends, and traveling to new places. Andreas is also a fitness enthusiast, and likes to stay active by practicing yoga and going for walks.

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