Saving Quotes - Page 3

• Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

  Argus Hamilton

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

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• Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

  Wen Jiabao

  Innovation, Regulation, Derivatives

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• Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.

  Dan Ariely

  Loss, People, Suffering

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Book, Fascination, Cain

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

  Amity Shlaes

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "Coolest Cal". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Crazy, Years, People

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• We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.

  Liam Fox

  People, Inheritance, Movement

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• I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

  Allie Gonino

  Kids, Thinking, Musician

  Source: collider.com

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• Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.

  Dan Ariely

  Retirement, Giving Up, Shoes

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Mean, Gay

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• With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about it. Automatic deductions are a wonderful thing. But ideally, you should wait until the end of the month, you can see how much extra money you had, and you should put that in your savings account. We don't do that too well, and if we did that, we would never save. So, what we do, is we take money out of our pocket into the saving account at the beginning of the month, take it outside of our control and as a consequence, we spend less and we save more.

  Dan Ariely

  Waiting, Enemy, Pockets

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to them, but not about their life, so you get to work on saving their life. But you know whose lives you're saving overseas, in the Army, to a certain degree. You know whether's it your guy or a bad guy, and it's generally not anybody in between.

  Brendan Fehr

  Army, Guy, Trying

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Prejudice, World, Facts

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• I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

  Harrison Ford

  Hero, Character, Play

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

  Edmund Burke

  Judgment, Virtue, Economy

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

  Dan Ariely

  Country, Jobs, Kids

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Done, World

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• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, People, Entertainment

  "Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'". Interview with Ben Steverman, www.bloomberg.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Giving, Habit

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the railroads. This one the Internet. This one the slave trade. And if we hope to do anything about saving the environment, or getting to other worlds, we'll need a bubble for that too. Everything I've ever done in my life worth anything has been done in a bubble: in a state of extreme hope and trust and stupidity.

  Lucy Prebble

  Mirrors, Other Worlds, Stupidity

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• Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Humble, Thinking

  "Austere Example: Pope's Message at Odds with Bishops' Lifestyle" by Peter Wensierski and Spiegel, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2013.

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• The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.

  William Blaikie

  Existence, Sabbath, Humans

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• You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere

  Robert G. Allen

  Names, Rich, Millionaire

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• 'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses.

  Bill Maher

  Tree, Fetus, Way

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• If I can succeed in saving only a single soul I can be sure that my own will be saved.

  Dominic Savio

  Soul, Succeed, My Own

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