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It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
– Ron Lewis
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It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
– Wilfrid Laurier
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
– E. F. Schumacher
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In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
– Wolfgang Schauble
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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
– William Greider
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In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
– Elena Kagan
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In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
– Bruce Beresford
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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
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
– Ben Stein
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If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.
– Ron Chernow
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If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
– William Greider
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If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.
– Ricky Schroder
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If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
– Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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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
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I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.
– Paul M. Glaser
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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
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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
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I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.
– Ruth Handler
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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
– Helen Fielding
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I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
– Donald Trump
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I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
– Bille August
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I understand that finance can be very complex.
– Kevin Harrington
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I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
– Timothy Geithner
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I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
– Mathias Rust
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I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
– Andrew Motion
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I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
– Bernard Ebbers
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I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
– Evo Morales
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I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
– Merton Miller
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I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
– Penelope Spheeris
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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
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I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
– Christie Hefner
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I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.
– Nick Johnson
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I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
– Ehud Barak
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I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
– Ben Nelson
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Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
– Ne-Yo
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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
– David Ricardo
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Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
– Sanjay Kumar
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
– Mario Puzo
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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
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Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.
– Peer Steinbruck
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Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
– Will Rogers
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Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
– Stephen Harper
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But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
– Tadao Ando
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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
– Robert McChesney
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But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.
– Martin Feldstein
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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
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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
– Steve Israel
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As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.
– Debbie Stabenow
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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
– Martin Cruz Smith
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Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
– Merton Miller
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And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.
– Timothy Geithner
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All money is a matter of belief.
– Adam Smith
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Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
– Jay Alan Sekulow
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'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
– Mark Burnett
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Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort.
– Robert Hughes
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We have advanced scientifically, ethically and otherwise, but in finance we have followed the barbaric methods of our ancestors and the teachings of college-bred idiots who tell us that gold is the only desirable coin.
– Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
– Robert W. Sarnoff
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Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
– William J. Clinton
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We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
– Marcy Kaptur
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
– Russell Baker
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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. I find it very sad.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
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One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
– Sarah Jessica Parker
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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
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I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
– Angela Merkel
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I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.
– Rick Santorum
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