Financial Sector Quotes

#1. A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.

Barry Ritholtz

#2. Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

#3. My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.

Uday Kotak

#4. I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.

Herve Falciani

#5. One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

Juan Enriquez

#6. History proves ... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

Ben Bernanke

#7. After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

Bernie Sanders

#8. In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Niall Ferguson

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks

Marc Faber

#12. The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

John C. Bogle

#13. We are in God's hands. We can't come up with a surprise big enough or a sin vile enough to thwart His plan. If we allow Him to refine us we will inevitably end up free from the impurities that separate us from Him.

Toni Sorenson

#14. 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

#15. The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Bart

#16. If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

Avi Rubin

#17. I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Lynda Barry

#18. To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Edmund Phelps

#19. All things are in a state of flux.

Heraclitus

#20. So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Chris Rock

#21. I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Marian Wright Edelman

#22. The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various governmental agencies who are charged with regulating these firms.

John L. Casti

#23. Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

Toshihiko Fukui

#24. I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

Steve Daines

#25. Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

Jewel

#26. There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

Vince Cable

#27. We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.

Noreena Hertz

#28. It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.

Mariska Hargitay

#29. Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. Learn from what's behind you but look forward to what's ahead. It would be a sad, sad existence if you believed your best had already come and gone. Believe instead the truth ... that the best is yet to be because that part's up to you.

Toni Sorenson

#31. Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time - for example, in the private sector, the management of complex financial institutions or, in the public sector, the day-to-day supervision of those institutions.

Ben Bernanke

#32. May your Valentine's Day be filled with adoration, pampering, and a pair of gorgeous, tiny-heeled Jimmy Choo sandals that are completely useless in this weather. Just remember: You are totally worth it.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#33. Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

Ramon Magsaysay

#35. .. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say.

Ian McEwan