Fund Quotes - Page 19

• The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

  Jeremy Paxman

  Ideas, People, Machines

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

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• This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Law, Support

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.73, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Mcclellan, Might, Whiskey

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 121), 1975.

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• Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Corporations, Prosperity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Art, Assets, Form

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• You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.

  Mark Skousen

  Party, Grandchildren, Government

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• Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

  Audre Lorde

  Creativity, Differences, Creative

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• A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.

  Walter Lippmann

  Cutting, Useless, Facts

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.74, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Successful, Matter, Financial

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 65), April 16, 2002.

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• I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

  David Mamet

  Grief, Loss, Odds

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• If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

  Warren Buffett

  Average, Years, People

  Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 2004.

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

  Lindsey Graham

  Nurse, Pay, Truckers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Abortion, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

  Meg Greenfield

  Success, Exercise, Men

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• Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

  Mike Royko

  Defense, Moonbeams

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• One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Affection, Spending

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• The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

  Christine Lagarde

  Government, Europe, Doubt

  "Christine Lagarde interview on second day in IMF job". Interview with Stephanie Flanders, www.bbc.com. July 6, 2011.

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• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, What Matters, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.

  Tim Allen

  Opportunity, Design, Tools

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• One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

  Howard Hughes

  Small Numbers, Anxiety, Development

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• While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Impact, Years, Balance

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• If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.

  Muriel Siebert

  Talking, Risk, United States

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• It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.

  Brian Thompson

  Successful, Technology, Minnesota

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