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  • Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

    Business   War   Gambling  
  • Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.

  • There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

    Martin Mayer (1990). “The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry”, Scribner Book Company
  • I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?

  • I want to end tax dumping. States that have a common currency should not be engaged in tax competition. We need a minimum tax rate and a European finance minister, who would be responsible for closing the tax loopholes and getting rid of the tax havens inside and outside the EU. It is also clear that we have to reach common standards in our economic and labor policies. We cannot continue to just talk about technical details. We have to inspire enthusiasm in Germany for Europe.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

  • In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

    War   Loss   Government  
    "The creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.
  • There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

    Business   Fishing   Long  
  • On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

    Littles   Hearing   Eras  
  • A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things up for the future when she said, "What do you want to do when you retire?" I said, "I always wanted to do a food show."

    Want   Finance   Ends  
    Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
  • 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.

    Business   Men   Animal  
    Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”
  • For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

    World   Film   Finance  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

    Business   Crazy   Aunt  
    Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”
  • Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America.

    Land   America   Air  
  • If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 19, 2012
  • My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

  • 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...

    "Jeremy Paxman and Theresa May's Newsnight exchange". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 6, 2010.
  • We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.

    Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.35, Orbis Books
  • I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible. It sounds hokey, but it works. You run your marriage that way, and it works. It will work with business, too, and finances. Treat people like you want to be treated.

  • I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

    "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.
  • 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.

    Writing   Play   Numbers  
  • FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

    Art   Discovery   America  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社
  • I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

    Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”
  • Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

  • I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

    Thinking   Class   Greed  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.

  • The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

    World   Way   Financial  
  • It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

  • We take smaller companies and middle-sized companies, all around the world, and we do currency exchange for them; we raise bonds and equities for them; and we do inventory finance, trade finance, and custody of assets.

    Source: asia.nikkei.com
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