Fund Quotes - Page 8

• The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

  Mark Cuban

  Smile, Jobs, Selfish

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• When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.

  Evan Davis

  Country, United States, Population

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Government, Use, Pay

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• The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Campaigns, Records, Matter

  "Elizabeth Edwards: John 'made one mistake'" by By Mike Celizic, www.today.com. May 11, 2009.

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• When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

  Marc Faber

  People, Flow, Doe

  "Marc Faber: Not Even Gold Will Save You From What Is Coming" by Matthew Boesler, www.businessinsider.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Thinking, Groups

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• Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

  Thomas Frank

  Years, Parking Meters, Together

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

  Thomas Frank

  Choices, Pockets, Needs

  "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

  Al Franken

  Drug, Pieces, Might

  "If You Ever Wonder Whether We Really Need Public Financing of Elections in this Country" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2007.

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• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

  Bob Geldof

  Thinking, Organization, People

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• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

  Jennifer Granholm

  Home, School, Cities

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• We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

  Alan Greenspan

  Real, Needs, Locks

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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• To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

  William Hague

  Retirement, Children, Hard Work

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.

  Kirk Hammett

  Stars, Wall, War

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• You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

  Daniel Hannan

  Order, Forever, Economy

  "Hannan Rips PM Brown; Obama on Same Path?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Use

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• If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Support, Type

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• I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Thinking, People

  South Carolina Democratic primary debate, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Pension Plans, Risk, Acting

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• I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

  Peter Lynch

  Happiness, Reading, Investing

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• Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Retirement, Moving, Support

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

  David Miliband

  School, Jewels, Office

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

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• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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