Fund Quotes - Page 15

• Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.

  Sepp Blatter

  Country, Issues, Russia

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• A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

  Renny Harlin

  Movie, Government, Foundation

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

  Mary Schmich

  Trust, Running, Support You

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• If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

  Peter Lynch

  Homework, Mutual Fund, Stomach

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Active Management

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• All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Hands, People, Effort

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

  Neil Young

  Vision, Important, Greatest Gifts

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• In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

  Nick Clooney

  Running, Hype, President

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• Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

  John Breaux

  Struggle, Mean, Research Study

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• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

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• If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

  Jeff Brooks

  Fundraising, Theatre, Needs

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• Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Children, Kids

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• I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Home, Europe

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• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Play, Growth, Important

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• Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.

  Michael McCaul

  America, Humanity, Important

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• When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Creativity, Blessing, Opportunity

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.135, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Heirs, Harm, Concerned

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• Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

  Graham Roberts

  Spurs, Needs, Havens

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• You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Sleep, Government

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• Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

  Audre Lorde

  Creativity, Differences, Sparks

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.111, Crossing Press

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• You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

  Ben Elton

  Old Lady, Pension, Bits

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• Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

  Neko Case

  Independent, Rocks, Band

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• Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Average, Magic

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• Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.

  Patrick Bet-David

  Real, Gold, Investing

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