Finance Quotes - Page 32

• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Majority, Favour, Polls

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Courage, Organization, Simplicity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Men, Animal

  Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

  Philippe Couillard

  Quebec, States, Preserves

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

  Tom Wolfe

  Wall, Business, Three

  The Bonfire of the Vanities ch. 1 (1987). Ellipsis in the original.Wolfe took the phrase "Masters of the Universe" from a name used in the early 1980s for action figures by the Mattel toy company and in a related television cartoon show.

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• Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

  Fred Wilson

  Educational, Want Something, Quality

  "Customer Financing: Sell Something To Get Your Startup Going" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

  David Wilkerson

  Debt Free, Ministry, Debt

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• I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Trying, Firsts

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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• You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

  Bruce Sterling

  Morning, Shining, Atoms

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• Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

  David Wilkerson

  Prayer, America, Challenges

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• I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

  Donald Trump

  School, Students, Great Schools

  "Trump Fires Back at Obama Campaign Smear" by Steve Coz, www.newsmax.com. August 19, 2012.

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• We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Running, Gdp, Credit

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

  Martha Plimpton

  Thinking, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 2009.

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• I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

  Shimon Peres

  Night, People, Decision

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

  Gary Numan

  Jobs, Dad, Wish

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Immigration

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• My adversary is the world of finance.

  Francois Hollande

  World, Adversaries

  "François Hollande: from marshmallow man to Sarkozy's nemesis?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Financial Goals, Long

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from May 01, 2016

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• I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, Growth, Debt

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• Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, Struggle, Leader

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• The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

  Charles August Lindbergh

  Freedom, People, Historical

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• In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Dollars, Cents

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• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

  Steven Morrissey

  Important, British Monarchy, Useless

  "Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for maneuver, less money available to stimulate the eocnomy in the way needed.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Mean, Borrowing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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