Interest Quotes - Page 27

• It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Hands, Gold

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• Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

  George Soros

  Self, Principles, Investing

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.17, PublicAffairs

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• When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

  George Soros

  Gold, Investing, Moments

  "Soros and Paulson move in opposite directions as gold declines" by Tom Bawden, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2011.

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• Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

  Bill Gates

  Caring, Self, Circles

  Remarks by Bill Gates at World Economic Forum 2008 "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century" in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Together, Cameras

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• When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Selfish, Passion

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  David Bowie

  Selfish, Writing, Mean

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• It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Country, Selfish, Past

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• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

  Simon Newcomb

  Real, Sensual, Navy

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Moving, Topics

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• I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

  George Galloway

  Ambition, Befriending, Easy

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• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

  Janet Yellen

  Voting, Negative, Would Be

  "Why Gold Is Unstoppable" by Doug French, www.caseyresearch.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Mean

  "Word for Word/'Greenspan Shrugged'; When Greed Was a Virtue And Regulation the Enemy" by Bill Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2002.

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• I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mistake, Self, Made

  " Greenspan - I was wrong about the economy. Sort of" by Andrew Clark and Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

  Paul Krugman

  Political, Fiction, Kind

  "Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. May 30, 2012.

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• It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Dry Up, People

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• Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Long, People

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• What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sorry, Thinking, Ideas

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• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

  Max Born

  Men, Technology, Scientific Method

  "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.

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• I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Drama, Real, Successful

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Self, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

  Francois Pinault

  Nostalgia, Tomorrow

  "Lunch With François Pinault" by Jackie Wullschlager, www.slate.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence.

  Vsevolod Meyerhold

  Destiny, Play, Theatre

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• The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Thinking, Vanity, Effort

  "The Real Problem in DC: Sportsmanship" by Michael Brick, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2013.

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