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| Alan Greenspan | In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. | 101 |
| Angela Merkel | I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. | 101 |
| Dave Ramsey | The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. | 101 |
| Daymond John | I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence. | 101 |
| Mark Cuban | Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. | 101 |
| Oliver E. Williamson | The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate. | 101 |
| Yahoo Serious | Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else. | 101 |
| Yanis Varoufakis | Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. | 101 |
| Yann Arthus-Bertrand | I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words. | 101 |
| Zack Space | It starts with campaign finance reform. | 101 |
| Bernard Ebbers | I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. | 101 |
| E. F. Schumacher | Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. | 101 |
| Kevin Harrington | I understand that finance can be very complex. | 101 |
| Paul Tudor Jones | Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance. | 101 |
| Richard C. Armitage | The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. | 101 |
| Saint Stephen | We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. | 101 |
| Thomas Kean, Jr. | Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work. | 101 |
| William Petty | Money is the best rule of commerce. | 101 |
| Debbie Stabenow | As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. | 101 |
| Graeme Base | I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling. | 101 |
| Neil Burger | I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance. | 101 |
| Alfred Marshall | 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. | 101 |
| Hugh Hudson | It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar. | 101 |
| Robin Leach | It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. | 101 |
| Sanjay Kumar | Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation. | 101 |
| Bille August | I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. | 101 |
| Jacques Delors | The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. | 101 |
| Steve Israel | As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. | 101 |
| Bar Paly | I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes. | 101 |
| Leon Black | After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try. | 101 |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. | 101 |
| David Schweikert | One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married. | 101 |
| Jay Alan Sekulow | Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. | 101 |
| John Cullum | After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance. | 101 |
| Matteo Manassero | I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it. | 101 |
| Marc Rich | I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management. | 101 |
| Alexander John Ellis | Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. | 101 |
| Alice Rivlin | The job of the Central Bank is to worry. | 101 |
| John Patrick | Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture. | 101 |
| John Harwood | As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections. | 101 |
| Herbert Hoover | About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. | 102 |
| Gail Collins | I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. | 102 |
| George Soros | The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. | 102 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. | 102 |
| Ross Levinsohn | Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world. | 102 |
| Suze Orman | A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. | 102 |
| William Feather | One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. | 102 |
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | 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. | 102 |
| Bruce McGill | There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be. | 102 |
| Francois Englert | As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. | 102 |
| Henry Mintzberg | What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. | 102 |
| Irving Fisher | The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. | 102 |
| Trent Franks | The Obama Justice Department has decided to cease the prosecution of the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S.-based front groups, identified as unindicted coconspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case - the largest terrorism finance case in U.S. history. | 102 |
| Bidzina Ivanishvili | It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger. | 102 |
| Gavin Hood | Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance. | 102 |
| Greer Garson | Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. | 102 |
| Leif Garrett | Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others. | 102 |
| Paul Michael Glaser | I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. | 102 |
| Peer Steinbruck | Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution. | 102 |
| Robert McChesney | But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. | 102 |
| William Kircher | For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all! | 102 |
| Aaron Schock | The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business. | 102 |
| Brenton Thwaites | I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. | 102 |
| John Barrymore | If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. | 102 |
| Morgan Fairchild | I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them. | 102 |
| Pete McCloskey | The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates. | 102 |
| Renny Harlin | There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films. | 102 |
| Rob Thomas | I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money. | 102 |
| Ron Lewis | Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. | 102 |
| George Reisman | Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. | 102 |
| Lee Marvin | I only make movies to finance my fishing. | 102 |
| Peter Middlebrook | In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication. | 102 |
| Rodrigo Rato | Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. | 102 |
| Steven Burd | In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance. | 102 |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. | 102 |
| Robin Li | People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live. | 102 |
| Andy Williams | We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances. | 102 |
| Barbara Feldon | I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. | 102 |
| Jeroen Dijsselbloem | 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. | 102 |
| Andy Sawford | The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities. | 102 |
| Alistair Darling | Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. | 102 |
| Joely Richardson | Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film. | 102 |
| James Ransone | I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance. | 102 |
| Warren Buffett | Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.  | 103 |
| Carol Bartz | Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product. | 103 |
| Lee Iacocca | We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. | 103 |
| Louis Farrakhan | Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles. | 103 |
| Suze Orman | The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. | 103 |
| Avigdor Lieberman | I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office. | 103 |
| Jared Kushner | New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance. | 103 |
| Nick Johnson | I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. | 103 |
| Peter Schuyler | To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. | 103 |
| Wolfgang Schauble | In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end. | 103 |
| Barry Sternlicht | It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets. | 103 |
| Blair Underwood | The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it. | 103 |
| Gray Davis | We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today. | 103 |
| Kayla Tausche | I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks. | 103 |
| Mark Skousen | One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not. | 103 |
| Merton Miller | My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. | 103 |
| Robert McChesney | The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. | 103 |
| Robert Shapiro | During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful. | 103 |
| Sophie Kinsella | I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait. | 103 |
| Tom Daschle | We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. | 103 |
| Martin Cruz Smith | As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. | 103 |
| Michael J. Saylor | When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency. | 103 |
| Rob James-Collier | Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that? | 103 |
| T. Harv Eker | The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. | 103 |
| Tim Jackson | Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. | 103 |
| Ben Peek | I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes. | 103 |
| Ruzwana Bashir | You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible. | 103 |
| Scott Howell | Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee. | 103 |
| Mark Rydell | It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. | 103 |
| Andrew Tobias | Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune. | 103 |
| Michael Spence | I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field. | 103 |
| John Rawls | In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. | 103 |
| Carlos Slim | At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining. | 104 |
| Elizabeth Warren | Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. | 104 |
| Helen Fielding | 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. | 104 |
| Karen DeCrow | If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice. | 104 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. | 104 |
| Yahoo Serious | Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. | 104 |
| Asif Kapadia | I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance. | 104 |
| Bruce Beresford | In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films. | 104 |
| Charlie Munger | There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. | 104 |
| Ehud Barak | I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds. | 104 |
| Frank Gaffney | Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. | 104 |
| Lynn Jurich | Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world. | 104 |
| Tena Desae | I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts! | 104 |
| Tim Roth | I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. | 104 |
| Ben Nelson | I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. | 104 |
| Lloyd Dorfman | In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency. | 104 |
| Merton Miller | Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics. | 104 |
| Robert Zoellick | When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely. | 104 |
| Laurence D. Fink | To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost. | 104 |
| Mariano Rajoy | Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high. | 104 |
| Mauricio Macri | Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible. | 104 |
| Martin Feldstein | The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. | 104 |
| Sean Quinn | Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank. | 104 |
| Jose Ferreira | Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon. | 104 |
| Mathias Rust | I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean. | 104 |
| Adam Smith | All money is a matter of belief. | 105 |
| Geoff Mulgan | In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. | 105 |
| Olympia Snowe | Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. | 105 |
| Bill Gross | 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. | 105 |
| Charlie Munger | Wall Street has too much wealth and political power. | 105 |
| Carol Moseley Braun | The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. | 105 |
| Janet Yellen | In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions. | 105 |
| Moshe Kahlon | The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change. | 105 |
| Wang Shi | In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out. | 105 |
| Andrew Lo | While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear. | 105 |
| Hassanal Bolkiah | Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services. | 105 |
| Marcy Kaptur | We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business. | 105 |
| Merton Miller | To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. | 105 |
| Robert Graves | What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. | 105 |
| Stephen Harper | Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. | 105 |
| Artur Davis | This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. | 105 |
| James Buchan | Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. | 105 |
| Mario Puzo | Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. | 105 |
| Ruth Handler | I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. | 105 |
| Maria Bartiromo | Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. | 105 |
| Martin Feldstein | But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. | 105 |
| Robert C. Merton | The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools. | 105 |
| Susan Collins | Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short. | 105 |
| Jeremy Gilley | I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness. | 105 |
| James L. Buckley | What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines. | 105 |
| John Locke | Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. | 106 |
| David Ricardo | There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. | 106 |
| Donna Brazile | 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. | 106 |
| Alex Berenson | Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. | 106 |
| Hjalmar Schacht | The economy is a very sensitive organism. | 106 |
| Jean Chatzky | After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term. | 106 |
| Ne-Yo | Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school. | 106 |
| Penelope Spheeris | I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do. | 106 |
| Sherrod Brown | We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. | 106 |
| Sri Mulyani Indrawati | The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. | 106 |
| William Greider | If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. | 106 |
| Geoffrey West | Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from. | 106 |
| Merton Miller | You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. | 106 |
| Ruben Hinojosa | A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. | 106 |
| Andrew Card | Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure. | 106 |
| Robert F. Engle | There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded. | 106 |
| Jeffrey Sachs | We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. | 106 |
| Justin Welby | The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance. | 106 |
| Ben Bernanke | The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. | 107 |
| David Ricardo | Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. | 107 |
| Evan Davis | We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. | 107 |
| Fred Thompson | Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns. | 107 |
| Nolan Bushnell | I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going. | 107 |
| Alexa Von Tobel | Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances. | 107 |
| Carol Moseley Braun | People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. | 107 |
| David Dinkins | The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. | 107 |
| Jules Renard | I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. | 107 |
| Natalia Kills | A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well. | 107 |
| Ron Chernow | If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. | 107 |
| Timothy Geithner | And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. | 107 |
| William Greider | In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. | 107 |
| Andrew Motion | I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. | 107 |
| Merton Miller | I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any. | 107 |
| Alfred Marshall | Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. | 107 |
| John Hurt | 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. | 107 |
| Regis Philbin | I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. | 107 |
| Jerry Yang | Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that. | 107 |
| Martin Feldstein | 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. | 107 |
| Robert C. Merton | And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job. | 107 |
| John D. Rockefeller | The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. | 108 |
| Cliff Richard | Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time. | 108 |
| Francois Hollande | My adversary is the world of finance. | 108 |
| Fred Wilson | Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product. | 108 |
| Elena Kagan | In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done. | 108 |
| Martha Plimpton | At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie. | 108 |
| Timothy Geithner | I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that. | 108 |
| Marc Faber | 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. | 108 |
| Sophie Kinsella | People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance. | 108 |
| Aaron Patzer | If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple. | 108 |
| Allan Savory | People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone. | 108 |
| Mark Burnett | 'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. | 108 |
| Randy Quaid | My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge. | 108 |
| Jeffrey Sachs | We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. | 108 |
| Andrew Carnegie | Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. | 109 |
| Bill Drayton | Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! | 109 |
| Mark Zandi | The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it. | 109 |
| James Chanos | I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. | 109 |
| Anita Roddick | If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. | 110 |
| F. W. de Klerk | The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades. | 110 |
| Walter Annenberg | People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. | 110 |
| Alexa Von Tobel | Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending. | 110 |
| Ron Lewis | It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. | 110 |
| Clarence Day | A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. | 110 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. | 111 |
| Bo Bennett | As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. | 111 |
| Richard Wagner | Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. | 111 |
| Tommy Hilfiger | My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. | 111 |
| William Feather | A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. | 111 |
| Brandon Stanton | If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance. | 111 |
| Cameron Russell | One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform. | 111 |
| Ricky Schroder | If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time. | 111 |
| Carol W. Greider | Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists. | 111 |
| Roustam Tariko | What I'm primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don't do. | 111 |
| Andrew Carnegie | The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. | 112 |
| Francois Hollande | My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. | 112 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. | 112 |
| Henrik Ibsen | These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. | 112 |
| Vince Cable | Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market. | 112 |
| James Altucher | The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it. | 112 |
| Jim Hightower | There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. | 112 |
| Sri Mulyani Indrawati | I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable. | 112 |
| Benjamin Franklin | In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. | 113 |
| Dave Ramsey | You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities. | 113 |
| Henry Cavill | My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance. | 113 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. | 113 |
| Robert Rodriguez | The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. | 113 |
| Hillary Clinton | In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. | 114 |
| Marine Le Pen | There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming. | 114 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Poverty is unnecessary. | 114 |
| Wendy Kopp | All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. | 114 |
| Alexa Von Tobel | Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens. | 114 |
| Lowell McAdam | We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here. | 114 |
| Scott Cook | Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. | 114 |
| Timothy Ferriss | I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all. | 114 |
| Clayton M. Christensen | American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. | 115 |
| John Maynard Keynes | The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. | 116 |
| David Blunkett | Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show. | 116 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with. | 116 |
| Najib Razak | If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that. | 116 |
| Brandon Stanton | In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago. | 116 |
| Barry Ritholtz | The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult. | 117 |
| Dave Ramsey | I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us. | 117 |
| Gary Johnson | My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be. | 117 |
| Kygo | I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally. | 117 |
| Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked. | 117 |
| Peter Thiel | There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising. | 118 |
| Epictetus | Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. | 119 |
| Evo Morales | I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. | 119 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this. | 119 |
| Nathan Fillion | You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. | 119 |
| Alex Berenson | Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance. | 119 |
| Susan Straight | My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan. | 119 |
| Mark Skousen | For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. | 119 |
| Francois Hollande | I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds. | 120 |
| Guy Laliberte | We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. | 120 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. | 120 |
| Ken Robinson | If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital. | 120 |
| Suze Orman | Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks. | 120 |
| Natalie Massenet | If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business. | 121 |
| Gary Weiss | For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries. | 121 |
| Rick Santorum | I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. | 121 |
| Russell Baker | There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. | 121 |
| John D. Rockefeller | Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. | 122 |
| Alan Greenspan | Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. | 122 |
| Bernard Baruch | I made my money by selling too soon. | 122 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. | 123 |
| Mark Cuban | The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face. | 123 |
| Azim Premji | Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices. | 123 |
| Richard Branson | Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. | 124 |
| Milton Friedman | Inflation is taxation without legislation. | 124 |
| Rod Stewart | My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight. | 124 |
| Steven Seagal | Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true. | 124 |
| Henry Ford | It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. | 126 |
| Alan Greenspan | Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy. | 126 |
| Billie Jean King | 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. | 126 |
| Dick Cavett | Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. | 126 |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. | 126 |
| Timothy Noah | Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. | 126 |
| Alex Berenson | To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth. | 126 |
| Moshe Kahlon | Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year. | 126 |
| Adam Smith | The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. | 201 |
| Alex Berenson | African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs. | 201 |
| James Altucher | The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it. | 201 |
| Jeff Sessions | The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now. | 202 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. | 202 |
| James Altucher | The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully. | 202 |
| George Bernard Shaw | If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. | 204 |
| J. Paul Getty | Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. | 204 |
| Shimon Peres | I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. | 205 |
| Warren Bennis | Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations. | 205 |
| Ryan Holmes | Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control. | 205 |
| Margaret Thatcher | You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. | 206 |
| Edmund Hillary | I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. | 206 |
| Milton Friedman | I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. | 207 |
| Edmund Phelps | I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too. | 207 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. | 207 |
| Gary Weiss | George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life. | 208 |
| Ben Stein | If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. | 209 |
| Ben Bernanke | I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving. | 211 |
| Ben Stein | I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do. | 211 |
| Alan Greenspan | The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. | 213 |
| William J. Clinton | Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. | 214 |
| Will Smith | I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. | 215 |
| Satya Nadella | You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete. | 215 |
| Martin Rees | Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. | 217 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Watch your finances like a hawk. | 218 |
| Whit Stillman | My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around. | 218 |
| Kevin Spacey | As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change. | 221 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance. | 225 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.' | 225 |
| Marcia Fudge | As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century. | 226 |
| Noreena Hertz | Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised. | 303 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. | 308 |
| Tyra Banks | My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance. | 308 |
| Rachel Kushner | Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend. | 309 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. | 312 |
| Honore de Balzac | I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. | 312 |
| Hillary Clinton | Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. | 313 |
| Edmund Phelps | Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. | 313 |
| Morrissey | The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. | 313 |
| Honore de Balzac | Finance, like time, devours its own children. | 314 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know? | 314 |
| Nick Harkaway | In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us. | 315 |
| Suze Orman | Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation. | 315 |
| Marco Rubio | We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.' | 317 |
| David Bowie | I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. | 318 |
| Ted Deutch | Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters. | 318 |
| Susana Martinez | During my administration, we've welcomed a broad and diverse group of industries to New Mexico, including high-tech and traditional manufacturing, health care, information technology and finance. Some are homegrown New Mexico companies; others are global leaders in their industries. | 319 |
| John Delaney | What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details. | 319 |
| Jonathan Kozol | 'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. | 320 |
| Albert Camus | It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. | 323 |
| Nicholas Kristof | I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money. | 407 |
| Donald Trump | Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. | 414 |
| Eric Schneiderman | In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations. | 418 |
| John Legend | We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that. | 420 |
| Gordon Brown | I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing. | 423 |
| George Packer | Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing. | 502 |
| Will Rogers | Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. | 509 |
| Olivia Wilde | There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women. | 510 |
| Joel Osteen | I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. | 622 |
| Hillary Clinton | One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system. | 709 |
| Cory Booker | I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns. | 718 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. | 724 |
| Donald Trump | I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. | 802 |
| Donald Trump | I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student. | 907 |
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