Financial Quotes - Page 37

• No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

  Joyce Cary

  Money, Hands, Years

  Joyce Cary (1991). “Mister Johnson”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

  Stephen Bayley

  Sex, Attitude, Simple

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Dust, Bulls

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

  James Buchan

  Class, Devil, Today

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Father, Roles, Resources

  "Guy Kawasaki: No 'Secret Sauce' for Tech Success". Interview with Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Two, Support

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• The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Frustration, Past, Goal

  Charles J. Givens (1991). “More Wealth Without Risk: How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb”

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• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  Eugenie Clark

  Appreciate, Unseen, Use

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• It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Long, Needs

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• Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Block, School, Opportunity

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• I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Stress, People

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• It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Tables, Institutions

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• Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

  Pratibha Patil

  Government, People, High Standards

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• I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Fun, Writing, Novel

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• Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

  Robert Pozen

  Relationship, Desire, Auditors

  "An Intermediate Approach to the Auditor Rotation Issue" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Competition, Problem, Taxes

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Jesus, Ambition, Loss

  "Norbert Leo Butz and the root of evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

  Arthur Blank

  Jobs, Player, Agency

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• State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Government, Support

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• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  Earl Blumenauer

  War, Iraq, Cost

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• The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

  John Bruton

  Long, Horizon, May

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• As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

  Tom Barrett

  Jobs, Talking, Cities

  "Barrett Can't Name One Policy He'd Pursue to Create Jobs in Wisconsin". Interview with John McCormack, www.weeklystandard.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

  James C. Collins

  Opportunity, Midst, Advantage

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• I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

  Bob Corker

  Regulation, Difficult, Senate

  "Corker: GOP erred on financial reform" by Victoria Mcgrane, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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