Finance Quotes - Page 34

• The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

  James Madison

  Taxation, Budgets, Productive

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.160, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Communication

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

  Robert G. Allen

  Life, Money, Disappointment

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

  James Chanos

  Fall, Thinking, Differences

  "Legendary Short Seller Jim Chanos Shares The Method To His Madness" by Linette Lopez, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2012.

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hero, Beads, Strings

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound
  and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

  Winston Churchill

  Sound, Disagreeable

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Some folk want their luck buttered.

  Thomas Hardy

  Business, Luck, Want

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.107, Thomas Hardy

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• Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Dinner, Bed

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• I understand that finance can be very complex.

  Kevin Harrington

  Complexes

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• Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

  Alistair Darling

  Real, Goal, Economy

  "After Lehman Brothers' fall, we must look beyond the banks" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Play, Numbers

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• To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

  Merton Miller

  Bucks, Information, Serious

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• It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

  Robin Leach

  Money, People, Rich

  "Robin Leach...Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom Of Speech, Individual, Antagonist

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.311, Penguin

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• In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

  Alberto Manguel

  Dream, Engineering, Law

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.10, Vintage Canada

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• We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Cfs

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.

  Paco Rabanne

  Independent, Ideas, Impression

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• Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

  Suze Orman

  Sex, Women, Fake

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

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• All money is a matter of belief.

  Adam Smith

  Believe, Matter, Belief

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• Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact.

  Tom Rath

  Pride, Community, Quality

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.

  Patti Smith

  Spiritual, Fall, Son

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.245, A&C Black

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• Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

  Mario Puzo

  Gun, Knowing, Triggers

  "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Government, Hands

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

  George Reisman

  Planning, Economic, Individual

  George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub

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