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I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

I love free trade. I love the concept of free trade. Everything about it is good. I went to the Wharton School of Finance. They say, Let's go free trade.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

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

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

I think we're so addicted to bubble finance at the Fed that they can't get out of the corner they painted themselves into. I think the Fed is making federal debt so cheap that Congress has no interest, Washington has no incentive to ever face up to our massive fiscal gap that is going to grow, and grow as we go forward in time and so we have a paralyzed system.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

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.

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

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

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini himself, in the early 1960s, in the same time that he was developing this other idea of an Islamic state, also hit upon the idea that if a person is born into the wrong sex, it was entirely proper for them to change sex.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

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

One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.

Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

Short-term can be terminal.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.

That’s why you call it a budget.  You set it and you don’t budge.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

The bottom line is in heaven!