quotes about Finance
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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
-- Alexander John Ellis -
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.
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The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
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Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
-- Alistair DarlingSource : "After Lehman Brothers' fall, we must look beyond the banks" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.
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The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.
-- Arlie Russell HochschildSource : "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.
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The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.
-- Ayn Rand -
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I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
-- Bernard Ebbers -
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
-- Bernard EbbersSource : "Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005.
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There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare
-- Beth Comstock -
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
-- Bill Drayton -
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Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
-- Bill Gross -
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
-- Billie Jean King -
Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
-- Charles Handy -
Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.
-- David DremanSource : David Dreman (2008). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: the Next Generation”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
-- David Harvey -
That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.
-- David Plotz -
Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
-- David Wilkerson -
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
-- Donna Brazile -
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I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
-- Ehud Barak -
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
-- Elizabeth JanewaySource : Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow
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When it comes to finances, it matters less how much money you make and more how you spend it.
-- Emme -
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
-- Evan Davis -
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
-- Francoise SaganSource : "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.
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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
-- Friedrich ListSource : Friedrich List, William Notz (1931). “Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie und andere Beiträge der amerikanischen Zeit: 1825-1832”
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In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
-- Geoff MulganSource : "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.
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Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
-- George ReismanSource : George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub
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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
-- Henrik Ibsen -
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The economy is a very sensitive organism.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
-- Honore de Balzac -
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
-- James Madison -
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.148, Coventry House Publishing
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If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
-- Jeroen DijsselbloemSource : "What Dijsselbloem Really Said: Full 'On The Record' Transcript". Interview with Tyler Durden and Luke Baker, www.zerohedge.com. March 26, 2013.
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The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
-- Jim Rogers -
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
-- John Hurt -
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
-- John Rawls -
Your processes are amazingly fast, yet flexible, and the people at Screaming Circuits, from finance to the factory floor, are all knowledgeable and a joy to work with.
-- Jonathan Friedman -
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
-- Joseph Wood KrutchSource : Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”
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The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.
-- Justin WelbySource : "The Saturday interview: Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham". Interview with Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.
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American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.
-- Kent HovindSource : "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution". Book by Kent Hovind, 1996.
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I understand that finance can be very complex.
-- Kevin Harrington -
I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.
-- Larry Hite -
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Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others
-- Leif Garrett -
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
-- Mario PuzoSource : "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
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Short-term can be terminal.
-- Mark McCormackSource : Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.164, Bantam
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At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
-- Martha Plimpton -
To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.
-- Martin Feldstein -
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.
-- Martin MayerSource : Martin Mayer (1990). “The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry”, Scribner Book Company
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Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
-- Merton Miller -
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
-- Merton Miller -
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.
-- Nathan Fillion -
I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.
-- Paco Rabanne -
I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
-- Rick Levin -
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God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.
-- Rick Warren -
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
-- Robert Graves -
The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.
-- Robert Rodriguez -
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
-- Robin LeachSource : "Robin Leach...Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
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I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.
-- Ruth Handler -
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
-- Saint Stephen -
Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations,
-- Scott Harshbarger -
I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.
-- Stephen Harper -
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One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.
-- Sylvia Porter -
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
-- Tadao Ando -
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
-- Thomas Keneally -
Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.
-- William Eckhardt -
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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
-- William Feather -
The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.
-- William J. Clinton -
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
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I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country
-- Yanis VaroufakisSource : "Greek debt plan suffers blow as ECB cuts banks’ access to cash" by Jacquelin Magnay, www.swcs.com.au. February 6, 2015.
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It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit
-- Yoshiko Sakurai -
Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?
-- Ziad K. Abdelnour -
A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.
-- Gary B Smith -
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Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.
-- Mariana Mazzucato -
Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.
-- Rachel Notley -
Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue disproportionately to the rich and super-rich.
-- Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky -
If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.
-- Ryuhei Kitamura -
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One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini himself, in the early 1960s, in the same time that he was developing this other idea of an Islamic state, also hit upon the idea that if a person is born into the wrong sex, it was entirely proper for them to change sex.
-- Sadakat Kadri -
It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.
-- Brad Katsuyama -
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
-- Branko Milanovic -
I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.
-- Patricia GrassoSource : Patricia Grasso (2006). “Seducing the prince”
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We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.
-- Philippe CouillardSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
-- Sam Ervin -
The right wants to destroy the power of the Fed to increase the power of finance; and the progressives want to reorient the Fed so that it will stop protecting the interests of finance and protect the interests of the broader population instead.
-- Gerald EpsteinSource : Source: www.truth-out.org
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Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.
-- Gerald EpsteinSource : Source: www.truth-out.org
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Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.
-- Harry MarkopolosSource : Source: www.gq.com
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One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement.
-- Hedrick SmithSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.
-- Hugh HerrSource : Source: abilitymagazine.com
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They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.
-- James Wright -