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"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."
Vince Cable"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
Andrew Carnegie"In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector."
Geoff Mulgan"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."
Jay Alan Sekulow"A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security."
Winnie Byanyima"There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that."
Andrew Ng"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."
Robert Shapiro"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."
Henry Mintzberg"In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy."
Rex Tillerson"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."
Henry Ford"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
John Kenneth Galbraith"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."
Dave Ramsey"I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us."
Dave Ramsey"A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life."
Suze Orman"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
Friedrich August von Hayek"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
Alfred Marshall"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."
Alan Greenspan"If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010."
Alan K. Simpson"The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully."
James Altucher"I am all for trying to teach household finance in schools, starting as early as possible. And when it comes to high school, I think learning about compound interest is at least as important as trigonometry or memorizing the names of all 50 state capitals."
Richard Thaler"In our first decade, I interviewed about five thousand people in pursuit of the talent that would create our future. As our success grew, we became known across the four corners of finance not just for our outstanding returns, but also for our outstanding people."
Kenneth C. Griffin"Rupee fluctuation is not so significant compared with the other currencies. Fluctuations in currencies has been fairly steady. As the finance minister often says, fluctuation is the new normal."
Nirmala Sitharaman"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."
Hillary Clinton"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."
Blair Underwood"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
William Feather"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
Benjamin Franklin"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
John D. Rockefeller"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"I made my money by selling too soon."
Bernard Baruch"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."
Ken Robinson"I am all about self-improvement and becoming the best version of myself, it could be in my career, my finance, or just life in general."
Liza Soberano"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."
Alan Greenspan"It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance."
Kenneth C. Griffin"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."
Peter Middlebrook"If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings."
Eugene Fama"In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality."
Ali Bongo Ondimba"I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments."
Stephen A. Schwarzman"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."
Sanjay Kumar"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"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."
Gray Davis"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."
Shimon Peres"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."
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."
William Greider"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."
Carol Moseley Braun"The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters."
Robert McChesney"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."
John Locke"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."
Will Rogers"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
Herbert Hoover"The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance."
Justin Welby"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."
Dave Ramsey"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
Milton Friedman"When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency."
Michael J. Saylor"I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student."
Donald Trump"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."
Carol Moseley Braun"By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0."
Brian Armstrong"Entrepreneurs - both women and men - need equal and fair access to finance - to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change."
Arancha Gonzalez"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."
David Blunkett"As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion."
Dick Durbin"I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!"
Tena Desae"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."
Karen DeCrow"When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor."
Manmohan Singh"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."
Robert C. Merton"I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting."
Brenton Thwaites"'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."
Mark Burnett"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."
Fred Wilson"But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating."
Robert McChesney"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."
Ron Chernow"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."
David Dinkins"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."
Steve Israel"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."
Sherrod Brown"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."
Angela Merkel"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."
Paul Michael Glaser"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Epictetus"All money is a matter of belief."
Adam Smith"Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others."
Leif Garrett"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful."
Regis Philbin"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
John D. Rockefeller"People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live."
Robin Li"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."
Hassanal Bolkiah"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."
Bille August"Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending."
Janet Yellen"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."
Tim Jackson"I don't really enjoy finance and accounting."
Holly Branson"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."
Carol W. Greider"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."
Wang Shi"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."
Gary Weiss"George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life."
Gary Weiss"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."
Susan Straight"If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance."
Brandon Stanton"While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear."
Andrew Lo"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."
Olympia Snowe"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."
Trent Franks"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."
Paul Tudor Jones"As the Executive Chairman of 'Breitbart News' with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it's hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand."
Steve Bannon"Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth."
Andrew Yang"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."
Satya Nadella"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."
Kygo"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."
Jacques Delors"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."
Janet Yellen"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."
Geoffrey West"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."
Jeremy Gilley"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."
James Ransone"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"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."
Martin Feldstein"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."
Pete McCloskey"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."
Renny Harlin"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."
Marcy Kaptur"I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean."
Mathias Rust"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
David Ricardo"The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis."
Ben Bernanke"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."
George Soros"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
Alan Greenspan"The job of the Central Bank is to worry."
Alice Rivlin"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."
John Maynard Keynes"We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns."
Dick Durbin"All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt and using it to buy long term debt. In finance, we tend to think that's a neutral activity, even though those stimulus programs are huge."
Eugene Fama"I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance."
Will Smith"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."
Andy Sawford"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."
F. W. de Klerk"Hindi film industry's fortunes are directly connected to that of the world finance markets."
Akshaye Khanna"We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances."
Andy Williams"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."
Brandon Stanton"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."
Marine Le Pen"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."
Jeff Sessions"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."
Gordon Brown"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."
Cory Booker"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"I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor."
Subramanian Swamy"I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes."
Bar Paly"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."
Richard Armitage"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."
Neil Burger"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."
Matteo Manassero"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."
Francis Ford Coppola"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."
Warren Bennis"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."
Wilfrid Laurier"I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do."
Penelope Spheeris"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."
Nick Johnson"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."
Rodrigo Rato"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility."
E. F. Schumacher"You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure."
Margaret Thatcher"Money is the best rule of commerce."
William Petty"The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem."
Suze Orman"My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status."
Tommy Hilfiger"I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work."
Jason Blum"My background is around economics and finance; yet, of course, in professional services, talent is key. And for many of our clients, whatever the industry, they all are coming to me saying their No. 1 challenge is getting the right talent."
Pierre Nanterme"Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers."
Arancha Gonzalez"Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction."
Winnie Byanyima"I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds."
Ehud Barak"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."
Robert C. Merton"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."
William J. Clinton"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."
Jeffrey Sachs"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
Andrew Carnegie"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
Honore de Balzac"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."
Merton Miller"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."
Rachel Kushner"The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change."
Moshe Kahlon"Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year."
Moshe Kahlon"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."
Kayla Tausche"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."
Lowell McAdam"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."
Olivia Wilde"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."
James Altucher"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."
Jim Hightower"As you would expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world."
Rishi Sunak"I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life - you know, if you go into a shop, or you're talking about finance."
Liz Truss"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."
Thomas Kean, Jr."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."
Carlos Slim"There are no patents in finance."
Stephen A. Schwarzman"If you look at Citadel today, that's really - the founding principle of the firm is a real pursuit of talent, a pursuit of people who have a passion for finance, and a pursuit of individuals who make good decisions day in and day out."
Kenneth C. Griffin"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."
Ben Stein"'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."
Jonathan Kozol"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."
Edmund Hillary"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."
Alexa Von Tobel"It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar."
Hugh Hudson"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."
John Harwood"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."
Joely Richardson"At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie."
Martha Plimpton"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."
Rick Santorum"Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views."
Mikhail Khodorkovsky"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health."
Clarence Day"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."
Muhammad Yunus"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
Milton Friedman"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."
Joseph Wood Krutch"Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice."
Sergio Ermotti"There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world."
Jose Angel Gurria"It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity."
Marianne Lake"If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare."
Joe Lonsdale"The important source of finance is now commercial papers, bonds, and so on."
Chanda Kochhar"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."
Frank Gaffney"Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show."
Chris Sacca"It is my preference that the Democratic Party leads us forward in a way that is about standing up to special interests, in a way that advances campaign finance reform, in a way that fights for meaningful prescription drug reform."
Katie Porter"The best climbers no longer go to the 8000ers, but to the most difficult mountains in the world which are 6000 or 7000-meter-peaks. There they find any kind of playground. But it is a pity that the really good climbers have fewer opportunities to finance their expeditions because so much attention is taken away by the Everest tourists."
Reinhold Messner"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."
Richard Branson"Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation."
Suze Orman"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."
Saint Stephen"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."
Richard Wagner"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?"
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.'"
Leonardo DiCaprio"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."
Ted Deutch"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."
John Delaney"There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage."
Henry Paulson"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."
Timothy Geithner"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."
John Barrymore"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."
Timothy Geithner"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."
Andrew Motion"As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone."
Jack Ma"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."
Morrissey"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."
David Bowie"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."
George Packer"Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that? -Rob James"
Collier"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."
Noreena Hertz"American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet."
Clayton M. Christensen"Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product."
Carol Bartz"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."
Aaron Schock"The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds."
Robert Rodriguez"I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance."
Donald Trump"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."
Helen Fielding"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."
Sarah Jessica Parker"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
J. Paul Getty"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
Albert Camus"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."
Greer Garson"When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought."
Yael Cohen"Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest."
Adam Cohen"I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it."
Padmapriya Janakiraman"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."
Kevin Spacey"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."
Ryan Holmes"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."
Walter Annenberg"Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes."
Alexander John Ellis"I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence."
Daymond John"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."
Marcia Fudge"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."
Mauricio Macri"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."
John Legend"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."
Robert F. Engle"From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out."
Urjit Patel"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."
N. R. Narayana Murthy"I only make movies to finance my fishing."
Lee Marvin"After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance."
John Cullum"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."
Martin Rees"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."
Robert Zoellick"If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that."
Najib Razak"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."
Ben Stein"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."
Francois Hollande"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."
Peer Steinbruck"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."
Russell Baker"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."
Debbie Stabenow"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money."
Martin Cruz Smith"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."
T. Harv Eker"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."
Warren Buffett"I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks."
Julia Davis"We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance."
Ron Williams"When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'"
Jeff Bewkes"It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult."
John Hillcoat"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."
Allan Savory"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."
David Schweikert"You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film."
Lee Grant"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!"
William Kircher"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury."
Merton Miller"You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever."
Merton Miller"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."
Adam Smith"I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price."
Ruth Handler"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."
Anita Roddick"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."
Whit Stillman"When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and distribution, and really focusing on news, sports, finance - the things that uniquely Yahoo was really terrific at - and really build that whole flywheel."
Susan Decker"My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'"
Eddie Redmayne"The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation."
Alec Baldwin"Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance."
Cass Sunstein"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."
Stephen Harper"I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act."
Wendy Long"I grew up with very much an appreciation of the creative side of things, but always knowing how much Wall Street, finance and economics really powered everything else, whether it's politics or the art world."
Margaret Brennan"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."
Elena Kagan"Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics."
Merton Miller"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."
Azim Premji"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"Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance."
Timothy Noah"One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform."
Cameron Russell"Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance."
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."
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."
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."
Alex Berenson"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."
Mark Zandi"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."
Evo Morales"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."
Wolfgang Schauble"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. -Ne"
Yo"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."
Ricky Schroder"Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure."
Andrew Card"The economy is a very sensitive organism."
Hjalmar Schacht"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."
Bo Bennett"Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time."
Cliff Richard"Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement."
Ron Lewis"One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance."
John Lanchester"One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated."
Conner Eldridge"The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad."
Aneel Bhusri"Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration."
Roshni Nadar"What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London."
Joanna Coles"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."
Francois Hollande"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."
Susan Collins"I'd encourage more young people to apply their talents beyond finance and consulting and to think about reshaping how medicines are brought to market and how the business is run."
Vivek Ramaswamy"Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance."
Max Keiser"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."
Ben Peek"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."
Alexa Von Tobel"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
John Kenneth Galbraith"We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics."
Tom Daschle"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."
Jeffrey Sachs"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."
Mark Cuban"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
Scott Cook"There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it."
Will Poulter"My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter."
Will Poulter"As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident."
Tilman J. Fertitta"I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it."
Tilman J. Fertitta"It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month."
Steve Wynn"Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy."
Alistair Darling"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."
Bruce McGill"Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power."
Max Keiser"New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance."
Jared Kushner"My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance."
Tyra Banks"The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it."
James Altucher"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."
Ross Levinsohn"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."
Aaron Patzer"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."
Sri Mulyani Indrawati"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 Dijsselbloem"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
George Bernard Shaw"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
Benjamin Franklin"There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking."
Charlie Munger"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."
David Ricardo"My adversary is the world of finance."
Francois Hollande"America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth."
Jacob Weisberg"Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment."
Zanny Minton Beddoes"I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.'"
Debra Granik"It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever."
Dominic Holland"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine."
Richard Cordray"If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business."
Natalie Massenet"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."
Yanis Varoufakis"Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high."
Mariano Rajoy"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."
Martin Feldstein"Poverty is unnecessary."
Muhammad Yunus"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.'"
Marco Rubio"I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it."
Joel Osteen"You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better."
John T. Chambers"At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos."
John T. Chambers"By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries."
Steve Jurvetson"The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation."
Paul Craig Roberts"What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
Robert Graves"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."
John Patrick"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."
Tim Roth"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."
Graeme Base"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."
Eric Schneiderman"The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think the financial world there has been - I don't know if it's by design, or this is how it's evolved - there are bad actors who have wanted to obfuscate because you can benefit from the lack of transparency."
Sal Khan"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."
Laurence D. Fink"I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?"
Matteo Salvini"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."
Elizabeth Warren"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."
Lynn Jurich"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."
Francois Englert"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."
Bidzina Ivanishvili"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."
Barry Ritholtz"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 Hochschild"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"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."
Mark Cuban"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries."
Jules Renard"The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom."
Ron Dellums"Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge and underserve consumers."
Taavet Hinrikus"As technology progresses, I believe that fintech will fundamentally change finance."
Taavet Hinrikus"In the past, liberals have competed to see who could shout the loudest to shut down the banks, ridicule success, and penalize anyone working in finance. In fact, the Occupy Wall Street movement was an aggressive liberal effort to shut down Wall Street banks."
Richard Grenell"The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam."
Richard Grenell"I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers."
Manmohan Singh"Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities."
Jens Martin Skibsted"The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness, and more broadly for the stability of the financial system."
Jerome Powell"I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make."
Robert Eggers"We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry."
Joe Lonsdale"Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else."
Joe Lonsdale"Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance."
Kehinde Wiley"These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow."
Henrik Ibsen"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. -Jean"
Paul Sartre"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."
Natalia Kills"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value."
Irving Fisher"We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all."
Jennifer Konner"The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform."
Gaby Hoffmann"There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish."
Kelsey Grammer"I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me."
Joe Alwyn"If you really think about the fabric of the United States, or the finance of any economy, finance is a true underpinning of what makes the economy great - if it can be done successfully, responsibly, and with a client orientation."
Adena Friedman"In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators."
Perianne Boring"Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles."
Louis Farrakhan"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film."
Yahoo Serious"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."
Mark Rydell"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."
Fred Thompson"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."
James L. Buckley"Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks."
Jo Cox"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."
Marc Rich"Each time you buy a used game, this is money that doesn't go into the pocket of the people that took the risk to create this, to finance it, to develop it."
David Cage"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."
Steven Burd"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."
Jose Ferreira"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."
N. R. Narayana Murthy"I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving."
Ben Bernanke"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."
Sri Mulyani Indrawati"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. -Yann Arthus"
Bertrand"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."
Mark Skousen"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."
Nolan Bushnell"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."
Lloyd Dorfman"Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee."
Scott Howell"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
John Kenneth Galbraith"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 Marshall"My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it."
Beppe Grillo"The ECB puts out money that is meant to help our banks, but they do not use it to finance our businesses, but they give it to them to buy back their debt, to help French and German banks."
Beppe Grillo"I have millions of dollars, and I don't know finance. I've had some bad things happen in my career. I've got to educate myself. I sit down with my finance guy once a month and go over everything, line by line."
Chris Bosh"If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now."
Brad Feld"I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago."
John T. Chambers"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."
Merton Miller"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."
Nathan Fillion"And before I realized I could do music professionally, my whole plan was to go into finance and become a hedge fund manager."
24kGoldn"Watch your finances like a hawk."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."Finance, like time, devours its own children."
Honore de Balzac"Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop."
James Buchan"Wall Street has too much wealth and political power."
Charlie Munger"Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy."
Alan Greenspan"World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore."
Max Keiser"Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business."
Jeremy Allaire"Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law."
Luther Strange"I really love being finance director."
Judith McKenna"There's been a myth perpetuated where people think, 'I need to go into consulting, banking, finance, law, or medicine to make a consistently reasonable amount of money.' People are now realizing that's not the case."
Fred Ehrsam"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."
Yahoo Serious"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."
Oliver E. Williamson"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."
James Chanos"It starts with campaign finance reform."
Zack Space"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"Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune."
Andrew Tobias"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."
Morgan Fairchild"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."
Peter Thiel"Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that."
Jerry Yang"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."
Gavin Hood"After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try."
Leon Black"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."
Wendy Kopp"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."
Michael Spence"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."
Sean Quinn"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."
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."
Sophie Kinsella"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."
Gail Collins"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."
Ruzwana Bashir"I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally."
John Morrison"I studied finance and was a topper."
Parineeti Chopra"I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service."
Chris Murphy"Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister."
Subramanian Swamy"The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership."
Sanjaya Baru"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."
Rob Thomas"While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech."
John Paul Stevens"We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform."
Patrick Murphy"I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't."
Huda Kattan"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."
Hillary Clinton"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."
Artur Davis"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."
Guy Laliberte"We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back."
Lee Iacocca"We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too."
Evan Davis"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."
Ruben Hinojosa"No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail."
Jerome Powell"The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency."
Jerome Powell"When you're in finance, you see the company deeply - where it's running well and where there's issues you've got to solve."
Jamie S. Miller"I grew up in Finance."
Jamie S. Miller"It's hard to have any idea of how much money is enough to finance an appropriate lifestyle in retirement. But if a lump sum is translated into a monthly income, it's much easier to determine whether you have enough put away to afford to stop working."
Richard Thaler"There is a misperception among job seekers that opportunities for women in tech exist only for those with coding or engineering experience. To be sure, technology firms do need women with these skills, but they also need women with expertise in other areas, like marketing and finance."
Gillian Tans"Trade deficits are OK under certain circumstance. 1. An emerging nation imports capital goods necessary to enhance its productivity. 2. A developed nation, with a current account surplus, uses some of its investment income to finance the purchases of additional consumer goods from abroad."
Peter Schiff"After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap."
Eugene Fama"In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business."
Safra A. Catz"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."
Suze Orman"The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career."
Sal Khan"It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets."
Barry Sternlicht"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."
Asif Kapadia"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."
Jean Chatzky"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."
Steven Seagal"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."
Nick Harkaway"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."
Edmund Phelps"Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!"
Bill Drayton"I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office."
Avigdor Lieberman"I was accepted into Cornell in 1979 and went there to follow a finance and business path. I ended up pursuing marketing and sales because I was selected by Procter & Gamble as an undergraduate candidate to go into its brand management program, which is typically available only to M.B.A. candidates. -Reggie Fils"
Aime"My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background."
Fernando Haddad"Most of the people I came across in the finance and business world were honest people, doing the best for their staff and for their family. But I encountered many who weren't."
Amber Rudd"I worked in finance for 14 years, and I loved it. But after the financial industry, I thought a lot about, 'Do I love what I'm doing?'"
Stephanie Ruhle"I wouldn't finance a fad if I were a banker."
Ken Hakuta"When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change."
Lulu Wang"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."
Bruce Beresford"We bought a dog, and we financed it - a $1,400 dog. We had no money, so me and my wife had to put our names together with our credit just to finance a dog."
Chris Weidman"There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud."
Aneel Bhusri"Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina, and his first term immediately and unapologetically enacted a flurry of government solutions."
Ari Melber"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."
Gary Johnson"There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money."
John Lanchester"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."
Ron Lewis"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."
Dick Cavett"The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members."
Pete Hoekstra"The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance."
Kenneth C. Griffin"Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy."
Stephen A. Schwarzman"How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance."
Gordon B. Hinckley"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."
Susana Martinez"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed."
John Rawls"Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union."
Edmund Phelps"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."
Nicholas Kristof"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."
Roustam Tariko"I think there is an overwhelming support for campaign finance reform, and that includes conservatives and Republicans. Where the problem is is with the leadership; with the politicians who are benefiting from the big campaign contributions, and the dark money in the electioneering communications and so forth."
Richard Painter"I've been a pain in the rear for the Republican Party, and if I were to continue to be involved in the Democratic Party, I will continue to be a pain in the rear on campaign finance, health care, the environment. I'm not interested in party loyalty issues."
Richard Painter"Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals."
Gita Gopinath"When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance."
Gita Gopinath"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."
Tim Ferriss"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."
Marc Faber"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances."
Maria Bartiromo"My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight."
Rod Stewart"It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this."
Henry Paulson"Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy."
Lisa Madigan"If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?"
Amy Cuddy"When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks."
Michaela Coel"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."
Peter Schuyler"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. -Ngozi Okonjo"
Iweala"The blockchain is a distributed network that solves all the problems that we have of finance, but more broadly, it's like a philosophy. It's a way of life."
Mike Cernovich"A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises."
M. S. Swaminathan"The vast sums of money that are coming in at the top end of the game are stretching the rest of the sides to try to get as much benefit out of what finance they've got and get the best players they can find for that finance."
Sam Allardyce"A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there."
Arun Jaitley"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."
Ludwig von Mises"For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe."
Mark Skousen"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."
Randy Quaid"I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge."
Ben Nelson"It's hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications."
Alex Biryukov"When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing."
Brianna Wu"We want to see more sources of alternative finance, from innovations in factoring such as MarketInvoice or in peer-to-peer lending such as Funding Circle which Labour local authorities are now using to support and invest in local businesses."
Chuka Umunna"When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy."
La La Anthony"For generations of Hong Kongers, the only means of upward mobility and the only way to meaningfully contribute to society have been to obtain a respectable university degree (preferably in business administration) and a professional accreditation (in finance, accounting, law or medicine)."
Joshua Wong"My subjects were maths and physics. I truly appreciate the value in sciences, but understand the difficulty finding and retaining teachers for these subjects, especially when most of my Imperial cohort ended up as management consultants or in finance."
Layla Moran"My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space."
Jade Bird"Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning."
George Reisman"I understand that finance can be very complex."
Kevin Harrington"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."
Alexa Von Tobel"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."
Barbara Feldon"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
Donald Trump"Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics."
Zephyr Teachout"Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way."
Zephyr Teachout"If the publicly passed campaign finance laws had not been struck down by the Supreme Court, Club for Growth Action would be illegal, and Heritage Action wouldn't have the SuperPAC threat to back up its small ad purchases."
Zephyr Teachout"The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day."
Zephyr Teachout"Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out."
Erik Voorhees"Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society."
Robert J. Shiller"It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich."
Robin Leach"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."
Hillary Clinton