Quotes About Financier

#1. I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

#2. When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands over not only his money and jewelry but also his shirt and pants, because it doesn't occur to him that a robber might draw the line somewhere.

Rex Stout

#3. There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.

R.A. Lafferty

#4. As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Kevin Spacey

#5. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

Michel Chossudovsky

#8. The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

William Jennings Bryan

#9. I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Oswald Spengler

#10. A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

Jean Giraudoux

#11. A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

#12. I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

Laura Haddock

#13. The Nation observed, If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.

Oliver Stone

#14. When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

Ann Coulter

#15. And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Mordecai Richler

#16. American financier Bernard Baruch once remarked, 'Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

Ashwin Sanghi

#17. How do you like your eggs?" she said. "Hard or soft?"
"Hard," he bit out. "Why am I not surprised.

J.R. Ward

#18. Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police.

Stephen King

#19. A poetry professor had once defined romance to me as "bringing two people together when every force in the universe is working to keep them apart.

Jeff Hobbs

#20. I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Roger Federer

#21. I am still learning, for the Christian life is one of constant growth.

Billy Graham

#22. Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing their memes, irrespective of the costs and benefits to their human hosts.

Yuval Noah Harari

#23. I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb," Andy whispers.

Stacey Lee

#24. I stared at the screen, aware that my heart rate had sped up. Sped up? I was so angry I wanted to ram my fist into the monitor, as if by doing so I could somehow ram it into Paul Slater's rock hard abs. -Suze Simon

Meg Cabot