Top 100 Financial Quotes
#1. In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
Carol Bellamy
#2. Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.
William J. Clinton
#3. The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.
Marsha Blackburn
#4. I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
Marc Guggenheim
#5. I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#6. We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.
John James Cowperthwaite
#7. Our financial system is a false one and a huge burden on the people . . . This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth." - Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr.
Eustace Mullins
#8. The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
Brad Feld
#9. On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
Robert C. Solomon
#10. I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to be fewer people with financial and banking experience - there are more lawyers, academics, economists, maybe politicians now.
Jamie Dimon
#11. Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.
Dave Liniger
#12. The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination.
Nicolas Maduro
#13. For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.
Michael Medved
#14. As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Cal Thomas
#15. For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
Julia McNair Wright
#16. My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.
Dominique Moceanu
#17. I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.
Ezra Koenig
#18. Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.
Allen West
#19. So many guys try to show off to a girl by boasting of their financial assets and flashing their cash around etc, but a girl who makes her own money and is building her own empire is not impressed by such things. -Show me the integrity not the money.
Miya Yamanouchi
#20. Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.
Kenneth Arrow
#21. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
Anthony Noto
#22. Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.
John Steinbeck
#23. I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.
Laurence D. Fink
#24. Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.
Thomas Sowell
#25. We have come to have no idea of profit other than financial profit. The delusion is that cheapness leads to plenty. But what use is plenty of rubbish?
Walter James
#26. The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.
Steven M. Bragg
#27. The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
Ben Bernanke
#28. Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace.
Robert J. Eaton
#29. The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Don Rose
#30. Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.
Katrina Kaif
#31. The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.
Lucas Papademos
#32. I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.
James Maslow
#33. Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.
Alex Berenson
#34. I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
Andrew Vachss
#35. We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
Benjamin Carson
#36. Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
Will Rogers
#37. At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?
Tom Piazza
#38. Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#39. Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.
Michael Arrington
#40. The auction houses seemed not as dull as their financial counterparts on Wall Street, where parents of daughters imagined glass celings and bottom patting.
Steve Martin
#41. My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.
Jamie Dimon
#42. Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.
Ron Lewis
#43. I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
DJ Qualls
#45. When I opened the last [401k] statement, I jumped out of the window. True, it was the kitchen window and I only fell two feet, so the whole scene lacked drama, but I thought that was the required reaction to extreme financial turmoil in America. And I am nothing if not patriotic.
Celia Rivenbark
#46. During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#47. That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
Paul Hawken
#48. Closing the deal is not just selling, it is MOVING people from where they are to where they should be; helping them make the right choices and take action toward their financial freedom, peace of mind, and legacy.
Farshad Asl
#49. Time is key to building your financial security.
Suze Orman
#50. The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.
Stephen Covey
#51. Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms and strengthen our financial structure. As a result, our financial regulatory structure and regime have been very much strengthened.
Lee Myung-bak
#52. Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.
N. T. Wright
#53. If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.
Suze Orman
#54. Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
William E. Gladstone
#55. In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
Carl Spitteler
#56. A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
George Soros
#58. There are so many numerical financial flaws in ObamaCare. Young people realize I'll take the penalty. I'll deal with whatever it takes for the next couple of years. Maybe a couple years down the road, they will start to pay.
Eric Bolling
#59. Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
Manmohan Singh
#60. On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
Timothy Noah
#61. For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Victoria Woodhull
#62. Since mistakes of omission don't appear in the financial statements, most people don't pay attention to them. We rub our noses in mistakes of omission - as we just did.
Charlie Munger
#63. While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
Judd Nelson
#64. You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#65. The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers.
Robert Kiyosaki
#66. I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.
Julian Assange
#67. When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.
Carly Fiorina
#68. The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
Bernard Ebbers
#69. Many Osage, unlike other wealthy Americans, could not spend their money as they pleased because of the federally imposed system of financial guardians.
David Grann
#70. Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
Ben Bernanke
#71. If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.
Suze Orman
#72. In 2010 and 2012, I won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd Congressional District on the program 'Save NASA Impeach Obama,' without any organizational or financial backing from the party.
Kesha Rogers
#73. I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.
Alexi Giannoulias
#74. If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.
Jamie Dimon
#75. One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables.
Sophia Amoruso
#76. People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.
Peter Schiff
#77. We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
Ben Bernanke
#78. Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the same time.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#79. I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.
Dick Cheney
#80. I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.
Peter Lynch
#81. The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!
John Bruton
#82. The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.
Dick Morris
#83. The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.
Elizabeth Warren
#84. Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.
Cindee Snider Re
#85. 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
#86. Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]
Edmund Morris
#87. You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.
Steve Odland
#88. Their chattel status continues in their loss of name, their obligation to adopt the husband's domicile, and the general legal assumption that marriage involves an exchange of the female's domestic service and (sexual) consortium in return for financial support.31
Kate Millett
#89. The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
Wolfgang Schauble
#90. At any one time, the average poor household has a fistful of financial relationships on the go.
Daryl Collins
#91. Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
Lawrence Summers
#92. Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
Jack Ma
#93. I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
Teri Garr
#94. And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
Martin Feldstein
#95. Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.
Paul Ormerod
#96. The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.
Dennis Hastert
#97. To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life.
Jack Canfield
#98. Housing is the favorite investment of the middle class and moderately well-to-do, but true wealth always consists primarily of financial and business assets.
Thomas Piketty
#99. I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
Kenneth Lay
#100. I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
George Osborne
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