Financial Quotes - Page 40

• I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Mean, Media, Imagination

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• By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Loving Yourself, People, Investing

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• I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Saws, Congress

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• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Real, People

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• There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

  Thomas Frank

  Party, President, Crisis

  "Conservatives and Their Pity Parties" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2009.

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• I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

  Vito Fossella

  New York, Islands, Cities

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• Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

  Chuck Grassley

  Integrity, Drug, Secret

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• The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

  Chuck Grassley

  Doctors, Advice, Drug

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• All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

  David Gill

  Perspective, Different, May

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• Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Issues

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• My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

  Kenneth Arrow

  New York, Sacrifice, College

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• Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

  Michael Apted

  Writing, Rights, Creative

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• All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Two, Community

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• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gambling, Casinos, Should

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving, Judgment, More Money

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

  George Meany

  Experts, Economics, Skeptical

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• Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Design, Innovation, Variation

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• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  Conan O'Brien

  Visionaries, Republican, Stealing

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• Markets will always move ahead of the news.

  Joseph Granville

  Moving, News, Skeptical

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• Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Honesty, Trying, May

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• In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Weight, Way

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• The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Bears, Currency

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• There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . .

  Jeremy Grantham

  Pain, Thinking, Ends

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• Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

  James Moore

  Loss, Thinking, Safe Haven

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