Finance Quotes - Page 25

• When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

  Robert Breault

  Responsibility, Pay, Hell

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• But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation’s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Ideas

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

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• School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Suicide, School, Simple

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• I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Technology, Accounting, Knows

  "Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005.

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

  Alex James

  Business, Interesting, Lawyer

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• You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Business, Real, Cowboy

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• And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Thinking, America

  "Interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on "Meet the Press"". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2010.

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• I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Air, Order, Years

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• Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Wall, Government

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• We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.

  Anthony Daniels

  Thinking, People, Fiction

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

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• Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

  Vince Cable

  Choices, Competition, Needs

  "Vince Cable launches £110m loan scheme aimed at small firms" by Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

  Ehud Barak

  Venture, Lectures, Bigs

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• I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Bridget Jones, Cruise

  "Dumped Bridget, wrote spy novel". Interview with John Walsh, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Money, Learning

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 01, 2015

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• Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.

  Howard Zinn

  Atheist, Government, Historical

  "From empire to democracy" by Howard Zinn, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2008.

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• The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Moving, Thinking

  "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

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• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  Irving Fisher

  Income, Links, Economy

  Irving Fisher (2007). “The Nature of Capital and Income”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Business, Giving, People

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• ... I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real decisions are taken and I think it's a fascinating portfolio.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Real, Taken, Gay

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• Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

  J. B. Morton

  Business, Cutting, People

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• The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body of Christ, to encourage others in the proper use of their finances, and to make the extension of the Gospel possible.

  Charles Stanley

  Blessing, Opportunity, Giving

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• Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and law because they constitute the common denominator of all of them.

  Carl W. Ackerman

  Business, Science, Law

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• We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Dad, Mind Your Own Business, Sausage

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