Top 100 Quotes About Finance
#1. Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
Stephen Crane
#2. Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.
Martin Rees
#3. Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
Ne-Yo
#5. Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
Charlie Munger
#9. The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
F. W. De Klerk
#10. The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Sam Ervin
#12. Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
Jay Alan Sekulow
#13. The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.
Richard Perle
#15. Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E.F. Schumacher
#16. Use your influence to make impact and help others grow
Sunday Adelaja
#18. The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.
Nathan Fillion
#19. If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
Brandon Stanton
#21. Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you
Sunday Adelaja
#22. The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
Usman W. Chohan
#25. Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.
Amit Kalantri
#26. You don't live until you begin to live for keeping
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#28. You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#29. The truly wealthy don't often pursue status. They don't need to. They have already made it. The pursuit of Rolex watches and $100,000 vehicles is for wannabes like you and me. Why pursue status when you've already achieved it?
Erik Wecks
#32. Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.
Maili Wong
#33. Always evaluate and determine the product of your life
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Always invest your life in your calling and purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#35. The only way for the state to finance its operations is through the forcible expropriation of productive wealth from its citizens.
Daniel Alexander Brackins
#36. I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.
Regis Philbin
#37. In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
Bruce Beresford
#38. The only way to make life fruitful is by being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#40. The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
Carol Moseley Braun
#41. I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.
Hillary Clinton
#43. 12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#44. Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.
Assegid Habtewold
#45. Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I'm doing so well with it, I know I'm actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.
A.D. Aliwat
#46. We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.
Alice Childress
#47. People just want to hear some common sense ... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Carol Moseley Braun
#49. Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.
Bei Dao
#50. Our purpose as believers is to make impact wherever we find ourselves
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities
Sunday Adelaja
#53. At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
Martha Plimpton
#54. If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Warren Buffett
#55. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.
Amah Lambert
#57. Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
Timothy Noah
#58. The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.
Charles A. Lindbergh
#59. Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.
Bernie Sanders
#60. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
Dick Cavett
#61. We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#62. The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
Irving Fisher
#63. Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Warren Buffett
#64. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.
Ivor Brown
#65. By 2009, [Richard] DeVos's son, Dick and daughter-in-law Betsy were major donors on the Koch lust and facing a $5.2 million civil fine of their own for violating Ohio's campaign-finance laws.
Jane Mayer
#67. People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.
Christina Stead
#68. You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.
Satya Nadella
#69. I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
Andrew Jackson
#70. You bring the influence of the Kingdom to the people by giving them things that would interest them
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager
Ambrose Bierce
#73. His own finance system was simple: whatever he got, he spent.
Peg Herring
#74. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Angela Merkel
#75. It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us
Sunday Adelaja
#78. You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#79. Don't be too engrossed with things of the world; discover your purpose in life
Sunday Adelaja
#81. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#82. 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.
Rachel Notley
#84. Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily
Sunday Adelaja
#85. There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis ... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.
Michael Jensen
#87. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!
Nancy Tellem
#90. Don't limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise
Sunday Adelaja
#91. Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
Paul Tudor Jones
#93. Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
Scott Cook
#94. Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations,
Scott Harshbarger
#96. Your calling should be a pointer for your skill development
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#100. The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged ... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
Alan Greenspan
