Finance Quotes - Page 13

• The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Business, Mean, Government

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• All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

  Harold Wilson

  Business, Littles, Hearing

  'Hansard' 12 November 1956, col. 578

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• A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

  William Delbert Gann

  Business, Successful, Opposites

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• If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Temptation, Might

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, White, Ties

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Refrigerators

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• 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

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Family, Successful, Caring

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• I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Technology, Economy, Accounting

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• A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the extent an organism is administered medication, to the same extent it is condemned to being unable to react on its own. Moreover, when it is deprived of the medication, it dies; it is at the mercy of the pharmacist! Likewise, a political movement is at the mercy of those who finance it. These could cease their financing at any given moment and the movement, unaccustomed to living on its own, dies.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Men, Leader, Political

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• Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it becomes the slave of the great Jewish international finance which subjugates it by subvention. In this fashion the fate of a people is given into the hands of a caste of bankers.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Fashion, Fate, Hands

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.372, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

  Henry Cavill

  Mother, Dad, Team

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Skills, People, Risk

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• I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

  Richard Cobden

  Government, India, Emergencies

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.392

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• Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we address population growth sooner rather than later. Efficiency improvements, increased use of renewable resources and less waste in themselves are no longer sufficient to put us back into credit

  Phil Harding

  Growth, Population, Different

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• With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Luck, Microsoft

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• The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Numbers, United States, Reform

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• Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing freely, often your finances are as well. If your energy is blocked, your money does too.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Creative, Energy

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• The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivation, Artist, Self

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• The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

  Alistair Darling

  Business, Keys, People

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• 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

  Dream, Government, Years

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Tired, Media

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Government, America

  Barack Obama's speech Against Raising The Debt Ceiling on the floor of the US Senate, www.redstate.com. March 16, 2006.

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• Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

  Dave Ramsey

  Giving, Good Things

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.37, Penguin

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