Fund Quotes - Page 9

• I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

  Edvard Munch

  Should Have, Rooms, Accommodations

  7 Copy quote

• As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Funny Sarcastic, Priorities, Alcohol

  11 Copy quote

• I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Philosophy, Simple, Pay

  7 Copy quote

• There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Add, Idiot, Process

  6 Copy quote

• People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

  Suze Orman

  Maturity, Fans, Assuming

  7 Copy quote

• I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

  Suze Orman

  Home, Eight, People

  4 Copy quote

• Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

  George Osborne

  People, Saving, Investing

  11 Copy quote

• For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Government, Years

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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

  7 Copy quote

• [Under Obama,] our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

  Rick Perry

  Abortion, Dollars, World

  "Texas' Perry Assails Obama on Abortion at Stop in Los Angeles". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Trying, Sake

  4 Copy quote

• I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

  Cliff Richard

  Tears, Organisation

  7 Copy quote

• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  Pat Robertson

  Couple, Thinking, Ems

  4 Copy quote

• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  Pat Robertson

  Retirement, Sinking Feeling, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

  David Rockefeller

  Play, Support, Community

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Finance, Studios

  4 Copy quote

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  Karl Rove

  Past, Wish, Causes

  7 Copy quote

• You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, President, Hearing

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Organization, People

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  Ed Sheeran

  Cds, Dublin, Want

  "Interview with UK Pop Sensation Ed Sheeran". Interview with Marian Tuin, www.axs.com. January 20, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, People, Defense

  8 Copy quote

• Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Skills, Done, Adequate

  4 Copy quote

• The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

  Ben Stein

  Law, People, Credit

  4 Copy quote

• The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Government, People

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source