Finance Quotes
“I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.”
-- Nick Johnson
“I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.”
-- James Chanos
“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.”
-- Marcy Kaptur
“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”
-- Muhammad Yunus
“Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.”
-- Hassanal Bolkiah
“The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.”
-- Blair Underwood
“'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.”
-- Mark Burnett
“I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.”
-- John Hurt
“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
“I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.”
-- Ben Nelson
“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”
-- Alexander John Ellis
“In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.”
-- John Rawls
“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
-- Jim Rohn
“I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.”
-- Paul M. Glaser