Finance Quotes - Page 18

• Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

  Maurice Strong

  Law, Play, World Government

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• I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Giving, Innovation

  "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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• You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

  Alan Lakein

  Business, Moving, Talking

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• An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Oil, Iraq

  "Saddam's Ultimate Solution". Interview with James P. Rubin, www.pbs.org. July 11, 2002.

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• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Yield, Psychology

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• There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Wages, Way

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1888). “Works: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”

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• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Secret

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• In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Loss, Government

  "The creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Money, Business, Hair

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• It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.

  Brad Katsuyama

  Wall, Easier, Harder

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

  Clayton Christensen

  Perspective, Discipline, Marketing

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

  Adam McKay

  Banking, Essentials, Modern

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I only make movies to finance my fishing.

  Lee Marvin

  Fishing, Hunting And Fishing, Angling

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• What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Hurt, Player, College

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the things I've learned - before I would go on a show, I was like, "Oh God, I hate that show" or "That show is gonna get canceled." But now after being full-time on a show, you see how difficult it is and how much work goes into it and how so many decisions are based on finances or people's schedules or talent or location issues. It's a miracle that anything gets made.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Hate, Issues, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

  Juan Enriquez

  Fashion, New York, Real

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Mean, Land, Stuff

  "The New Maritime Silk Road". Interview with Parag Khanna, bigthink.com.

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• Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

  Bernie Sanders

  Democracy, Four, Proud

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. Its important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Divorce, Important, Records

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• People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

  Robin Li

  People, Entrepreneur, Information

  "The man behind China's answer to Google: accused by critics of piracy and censorship". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2005.

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Taught Us, Self, Worry

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Thinking, Government, Would Be

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Giving Up, Writing, Years

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

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• I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Writing, Years, Film

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

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