Financial Quotes - Page 24

• His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

  Joe Fafard

  Real, Work, Past

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• "Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Support, Community, World

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• I am like a chief. I like to taste the food. If it tastes bad, I don't serve it. I'm constantly monitoring what we do, and I'm always looking for better ways we can provide financial services, ways that would make me happy if I were a client.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Innovation, Way, Taste

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• Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

  George Soros

  Believe, Enemy, Society

  "The Capitalist Threat". www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

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• As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  Ursula Burns

  Powerful, Practice, Careers

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• When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Lessons, Genocide

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• I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely time-consuming. Film projects tend to drag on and on, which takes me away from the theatre, and then they don't get made. At the same time, the screenplays that have come my way have been quite challenging, for the most part, and even enjoyable.

  Donald Margulies

  Views, Challenges, Theatre

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• Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pain, Soul, Progress

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• The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Smart, Science

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• Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind

  Mark Allen

  Powerful, Inspiration, Unique

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• Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Marriage, Prayer, Honesty

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• A
  fighter's dream is to win a world title and gain financial stability.
  But what is happening to me now is the most humbling experience of my
  life. It is a great honor for me to be the face of my people and to let
  everyone know we are a small but mighty country. I have great pride for
  all of the Filipinos living throughout the world and it is these people
  that I fight for each and every time I step into the ring.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Dream, Country, Fighting

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• Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. ... Ridge's announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Home, Orange

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• Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Agency, Common, Corruption

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• For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Distance, Epic, Shining

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• Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Example, Networking

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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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