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• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Passion, People, Way

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• Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting...Take photography on as a passion, not a career.

  Alex Webb

  Photography, Passion, Careers

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• I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products.

  Robert Rubin

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

  Robert Rubin

  Political, Imf, Delay

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• Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

  Alain de Botton

  Love And Friendship, And Love, Debt

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• Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Storm, Saving, Our Family

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mean, Worry, Promise

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• Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.

  Mark Suster

  Stress, Sacrifice, Careers

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• Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

  David Bach

  Thinking, Small Steps, Giants

  FaceBook post by David Bach from Jul 16, 2012

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• We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

  Suze Orman

  Focus, Debt, Forget

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2016

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• I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Parent, Essentials, Want

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2017

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• I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Mean, Thinking, Climbing

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• The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Motivation, Heart, Rewards

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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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• Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Careers

  "Bailout Politics" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rain, Fire, Wind

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• Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Communication, Skills, Important

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.19, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

  Tom Robbins

  Demand, Offensive, Ends

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.201, Bantam

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• There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

  W. H. Auden

  Matter, Three, Funny Business

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Challenges, Faces

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• Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Practice, Organization

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• The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.

  Daniele Nouy

  Practice, Risk, Sound

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• There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.

  Paul Collier

  Book, Simple, Rocks

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