Finance Quotes - Page 27

• We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.

  Umair Haque

  Fashion, Business, Real

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• Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.

  David Ramsey

  Inspirational, Motivation, Stress

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• Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

  Earl Wilson

  Funny, Money, Business

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• Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity causes inflation. So they're trying to slow the economy down by raising interest rates. It's like a doctor saying you're in great health, so we have to make you sick a little bit. It's a bizarre theory. It's going to hurt our economy.

  Steve Forbes

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

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• They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

  James Wright

  Want, Brands

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• Money is the best rule of commerce.

  William Petty

  Commerce

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• While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

  Bobby Scott

  Mean, College, Students

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• Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

  James Grant

  Engineering, Progress, Banking

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• Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

  Sam Ervin

  Government, Atheism, Taxes

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• An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mba, Careers, Degrees

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.

  Roger Ailes

  Jobs, Engineering, People

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• I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering, science, medicine, finance, the world of architecture and technology - if those are left out, then you're not getting a full sense of the human condition. History is human and we human beings are involved in all kinds of things and that's part of our humanity.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Technology

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Jobs, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?

  Walter E. Williams

  Issues, Reform, Would Be

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• Form follows finances instead of function.

  Ira Flatow

  Form, Function

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• Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss is virtue which earns the Grace of God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Grace, Arms

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

  Paul Achleitner

  Children, Long, Getting Older

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.

  Mark Shields

  Crush, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Presidential, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Law, Office

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". "News Hour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Thinking, America, People

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• I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

  Chris Henchy

  Long, Degrees, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Zero, Opportunity, Thinking

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• You better make yourself acquainted to what the requirements are, what the value of money is all about and how you create a long-term survival, and in many cases it has to do with how you handle finances.

  Werner Herzog

  Long, Survival, Requirements

  Source: collider.com

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