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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

Short-term can be terminal.

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the idea that the great majority of poor people are somehow "undeserving," and being undeserving, merit at best very limited, oftentimes deeply coercive and humiliating, government interventions to better their finances. That narrative isn't about to disappear overnight; but it strikes me as being like a weak gruel - there's no sustenance in it, no heft behind the argument.

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

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

The bottom line is in heaven!

The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place; so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.

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

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

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

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

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

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

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.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

There's always a lot that's making me angry, but it won't tie into the election. I mean nothing against Hilary Clinton. I agree with Hilary on most issues, but campaign finance structure makes me very angry, because it means that politicians are going to have to raise a huge amount of money, which narrows the field dramatically.

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

The right wants to destroy the power of the Fed to increase the power of finance; and the progressives want to reorient the Fed so that it will stop protecting the interests of finance and protect the interests of the broader population instead.

The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

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...

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

When we surrender every area of our lives- including our finances-to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things.

While this is not a part of what Martin Shkreli`s being indicted for, there is sort of the overall picture of somebody who`s milking profits really off of patients who are poor in order to finance what at least what appears to be a lot of debt being built up in other businesses.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.