Finance Quotes - Page 15

• Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

  Merton Miller

  Umpires, Arbitrage, Economics

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• 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

  Looks, Election, Congress

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• But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

  Tadao Ando

  Economy, Concerned

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• No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Order

  "European leaders predict 2012 will be worse than 2011" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Country, Economic Models, Understanding

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• 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

  Generations, Benefits, Today

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• QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

  Ambrose Bierce

  White, Numbers, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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• The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.

  Andreas Antonopoulos

  Innovation, Bitcoin, Internet

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• I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Writing, Management Skills

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• Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Husband, Years

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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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• Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Struggle, Wages

  Karl Marx (1964). “Early writings”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to society. The income reflects the high total utility of a livelihood to a person.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Men, Income

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

  Karyn Kusama

  Lucky, Firsts, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

  Werner Herzog

  Writing, Organization, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.

  Maeve Binchy

  Sex, Party, Writing

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• They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

  Sean O'Grady

  Business, Special, Oncologists

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• I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Thinking, Would Be

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.

  Robert Benchley

  Country, Money, Gold

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Primitive Man, Dawn

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

  Christina Stead

  People, Scandal

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.540, Open Road Media

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• A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

  Christina Stead

  Wizards, Tricks, Asks

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, People, Water

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Support, Political

  "Greenspan’s Testimony: Will the ‘Maestro’ Face the Music?" by Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Reform, Campaigns, Magazines

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