Finance Quotes - Page 31

• The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective, that's what they're looking to balance.

  Hutch Parker

  Opportunity, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

  Abel Ferrara

  Raises, Direct, I Can

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

  Charlie Munger

  Clever, Innovation, Needs

  "Charlie Munger's Thoughts on the World: Part 1". Charlie Munger's speech at the Wesco Financial Annual Meeting "A Morning With Charlie" in Los Angeles, www.fool.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Community, Liquid, Doctrine

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.139, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Law, Stolen, Theft

  "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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• There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Believe, Men, Secret

  R. A. Lafferty (2000). “Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

  Richard Wagner

  Government, People, Currency

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• To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

  John Stossel

  Government, People, Favors

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• In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

  Maimonides

  Strict, Generous

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• Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Thinking, Marketing, Looks

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• If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Would Be, My Own, If I Could

  Source: collider.com

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• I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

  Marc Rich

  Top Management, Two, Growth

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• The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.

  Lewis Schiff

  Writing, Top Down, Discipline

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• I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

  Andrew Jackson

  Gambling, Wardrobe

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• A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Real, School, Math

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• Strangely, producing "Parisienne" was very long and difficult because the people who mainly finance films didn't understand the idea of a young foreign girl having a good time in Paris. They wanted to see her suffering and poor, and definitely not falling in love with three French men!

  Danielle Arbid

  Girl, Falling In Love, Men

  "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

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• We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought...

  Theresa May

  Government, Decision, Facts

  "Jeremy Paxman and Theresa May's Newsnight exchange". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 6, 2010.

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• If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.

  Mancur Olson

  Emotional, Organization, Groups

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

  Katy Lederer

  New York, Home, Games

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.

  Vicki Robin

  Sex, Easier, Therapists

  Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford (2008). “Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century”, p.45, Penguin

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• It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Cleveland, Income

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• The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

  Alice Rivlin

  Jobs, Worry, Central Banks

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• Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they virtually ignored manufacturing. I think of lot of the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s, and now more recently the 2000s can be traced pretty directly to the biases of the business schools.

  Charles R. Morris

  School, Thinking, Organization

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Money, Business, Generosity

  Ivan Roe, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1953). “Shelley, the last phase”

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