Finance Quotes - Page 29

• Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

  Thom Hartmann

  Campaigns, Campaign Finance, Crime

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• Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Gestures, Traders

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.19, Random House

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• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

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• We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

  Will Rogers

  Law, Bills, Financial

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• Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Wise, Business, Bankers

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.

  Ron Paul

  War, People, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.

  Norman Dodd

  Should Have, Practice, Ideas

  United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, Norman Dodd (1954). “A report from Norman Dodd, director of research, covering his direction of the staff of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations for the six months' period, November 1, 1953-April 30, 1954”

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• Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

  Mark Carney

  Business, Useless, Management

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• One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini himself, in the early 1960s, in the same time that he was developing this other idea of an Islamic state, also hit upon the idea that if a person is born into the wrong sex, it was entirely proper for them to change sex.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Country, Islamic, Reason

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that we see some cities that have developed living wage ordinances. I think that we see some efforts to actually put real restrictions on unscrupulous behavior by creditors. I think that the Consumer Finance Agency is a reflection of a political reaction to the abuses behind the financial disaster. I hope the system will continue to react.

  Martha Minow

  Real, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

  Harry Markopolos

  School, High School, Geometry

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.

  Joseph Kabila

  Fighting, Winning, Election

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Trump provides a more direct and arrogant persona that produces the ugliness of a society ruled entirely by finance capital and savage market values, one that prides itself on the denigration of others as well as of justice, passion, and equality.

  Henry Giroux

  Passion, Pride, Justice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• So, what people are actually left with to spend is maybe 25 to 30% of their income on goods and services, after paying taxes and after paying the FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). Whether it's housing insurance or mortgage insurance. So there's an idea of distracting people. Don't think of your condition. Think of how the overall economy is doing. But don't think of the economy as an overall unit. Think of the stock market as the economy. Think of the rich people as the economy. Look at the yachts that are made. Somebody's living a lot better. Couldn't it be you?

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Business, Decision

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• Someone stole my wallet last week. The guy called me up and he was mad at me. He was like 'you gotta get your finances together. You got no cash, your credit cards are maxed out. You don't even have minutes on your calling card. I had to use my card to call you.'

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Mad

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• I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

  John Hurt

  Order, Film, Los Angeles

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• Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

  Joely Richardson

  Two, Numbers, Years

  "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• There's always a lot that's making me angry, but it won't tie into the election. I mean nothing against Hilary Clinton. I agree with Hilary on most issues, but campaign finance structure makes me very angry, because it means that politicians are going to have to raise a huge amount of money, which narrows the field dramatically.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Election, Politician

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.

  Takafumi Horie

  Change, Business, Race

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Frustrated

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

  Regis Philbin

  Fun, Pain, Sometimes

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• One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Work, Thinking

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• As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Spring, Winter, Growth

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