Finance Quotes - Page 27

• The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, World, Might

  Paul Craig Roberts (2010). “How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds”, p.1976, AK Press

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• In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.

  Walther Rathenau

  Order, Secret, Sound

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• Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere

  Greg Avery

  Philosophy, Animal, Years

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• Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

  Martin Mayer

  Cracks, Banking, Cocaine

  Martin Mayer (1990). “The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry”, Scribner Book Company

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• The bottom line is in heaven!

  Edwin Land

  Business, Heaven, Lines

  Speech at shareholders' meeting of Polaroid Corporation, 26 Apr. 1977

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• One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

  John Gielgud

  Jobs, Business, Mean

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• We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate rates in the world. It restricts the growth of small enterprises that need to plow capital back into their businesses and forces companies and jobs to move overseas.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Moving, Growth

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• Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

  David Dreman

  Business, Beats

  David Dreman (2008). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: the Next Generation”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Jail

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• Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Phrases, Opinion

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 18, 1949.

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• The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

  Benjamin Graham

  Men, People, Imperfection

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part V, Chapter XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, p. 234, 1937.

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• If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Gone

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

  Harold Wilson

  Littles, Hearing, Eras

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• Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

  Will Rogers

  Voice, Dollars, Speech

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Years, People

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• A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

  George Washington

  Son, Two, Parent

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Law, Government, Unions

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Art, Literature

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Weather, Psychology, Gold

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1985.

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• Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

  Enrico Bombieri

  Loss, Science, Law

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• The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Golden, Economy, States

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 1, 1930.

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• The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Littles, Schemes, Taxes

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.148, Coventry House Publishing

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, War, Gambling

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• I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Country, Business, Critical Moments

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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• Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, America, Energy

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