Finance Quotes - Page 5

• I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

  "This May Cause Miracles!". Interview with Mastin Kipp, thedailylove.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

  George Soros

  Business, Government, Steps

  George Soros (2000). “Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism”, PublicAffairs

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• In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

  Francoise Sagan

  Credit, Rich

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Horse, Business

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• 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

  Independent, Directors, Substance

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• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Army

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• Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

  Hugh Herr

  Moving, Determine, Can Do

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

  David Bach

  Success, Education, Money

  FaceBook post by David Bach from Dec 10, 2010

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• We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

  Alice Childress

  Thinking, Poverty, Generations

  Alice Childress (2000). “A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich”, p.37, Penguin

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• I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Floating, Campaigns

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

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• I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

  Jim Rogers

  Business, Moving, Thinking

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• Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Reason, Equity

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• Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

  Alan Greenspan

  Running, Financial, Structure

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• We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Want, Derivatives

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• Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Business, Years, Mba

  "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

  Michael Lewis

  Football, Business, Nfl

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.

  Richard Shelby

  Business, Passing On, Creating

  "CNN Newsroom" with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2008.

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• In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

  Michael Enzi

  Country, Business, Past

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• Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

  John Major

  Business, Giving, Debt

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• Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

  George W. Bush

  Business, Wall, Hangover

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• It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Opportunity, People

  John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Business, Thinking, Income

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• For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

  George Will

  Business, Government, Long

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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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