Financial Innovation Quotes

#1. It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

Ben Bernanke

#4. It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.

Richard Branson

#5. Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

Wen Jiabao

#6. When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

Cameron Sinclair

#7. Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.

Brad D. Smith

#8. Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

Peter Senge

#9. I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Johnny Otis

#10. The apple of my eye, had turned into an empty core.

Anthony Liccione

#11. Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

Steve Ballmer

#12. I just try to take the best opportunities that I can get.

Heather Graham

#13. It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

Andrew Murray

#14. It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

Barack Obama

#15. Passion lights the flame; dedication keeps the flame burning brightly.

Jeffrey A. White

#16. The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#17. This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

Timothy Geithner

#18. Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design ... The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#19. I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth - one shred of evidence.

Paul Volcker

#20. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

Christopher Dodd

#21. We need to find a way to safeguard humanity whilst still offering short-term financial incentives. For sure, we need innovators in finance more than we need innovation in technology.

David W. Wood