Finance Quotes - Page 13

• Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Support, Fool

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• I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessed, Blessing, Want

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• Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.

  J. William Fulbright

  Israel, United States, Doe

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Elements, Disease, Silver

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• New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Cities, Government

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• The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Government, Order

  "General strike brings Greece to a surprisingly calm halt" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  Randy Quaid

  People, Together, Groups

  "VIDEO: Randy Quaid: Evi and I 'Cannot Function'" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Risk, Spain, Debt

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• Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Government

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• Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Business, Real, Moving

  "Taxing Taxes" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. May 01, 1998.

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• Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

  Rick Levin

  Nonprofits, Tricky, Surplus

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• Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.

  Mary Robinson

  Realizing, Ministers, Wells

  Source: www.who.int

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• I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

  Werner Herzog

  School, Mean, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours non-stop everyday; alone, single-handedly. But the difference is in the Rogue Film School I do have real human beings in front of me from all over the world, and of course there's this course as well, they can ask, talk about their problems and obstacles, finances, anything, you just name it. Whereas in the Masterclass, you are speaking to cameras.

  Werner Herzog

  Running, Real, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Thinking, Would Be

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• We take smaller companies and middle-sized companies, all around the world, and we do currency exchange for them; we raise bonds and equities for them; and we do inventory finance, trade finance, and custody of assets.

  Jamie Dimon

  Inventory, World, Custody

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

  Indira Gandhi

  Moving, Eight, Years

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. And the question becomes, how is finance capital, how does the 1 percent now resort to governing? And they govern basically through a form of lawlessness and what I call the punishing state, in which we've had a punishment creep, and now it moves from the prison to almost every institution in society, from airports to schools to social services.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, School, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

  Henry Giroux

  Class, Comfort, Globalization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Data, Might, World

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.

  David Souter

  Issues, Rights, Small Numbers

  "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.

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• When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Wall, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.

  John Kao

  Running, Organization, Agreement

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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