Financial Quotes - Page 35

• I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing of relationships.

  Michael Beckwith

  Healing, Law Of Attraction, People

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• The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

  Brad Feld

  Fundraising, Predictions, Percent

  Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson (2016). “Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  New York, Cities, Government

  The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.

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• We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, School, Government

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• The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Support, Would Be

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

  Peter Bart

  Commitment, Media, Reducing

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• I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

  Andrew Vachss

  Faith, Believe, Years

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• A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Judgement, Reason Why, Behavior

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• Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

  James Wolfensohn

  Power, Bridges, Water

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• What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

  James T. Walsh

  Believe, Power, Media

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• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Hype, Age

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• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Real, Commitment, Eye

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• Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Entrepreneur, Existential

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 28, 2014

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• 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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• The rest of the world needs the U.S. economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

  Timothy Geithner

  Ties, Order, Needs

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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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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• The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

  Theodore Stevens

  Book, Agency, America

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• And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

  Jami Attenberg

  Disappointment, Block, Struggle

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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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