Finance Quotes
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
-- Henry Ford
“What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.”
-- James L. Buckley
“We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.”
-- Jeffrey Sachs
“Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.”
-- Donna Brazile
“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
-- Adam Smith
“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
“Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.”
-- William J. Clinton
“It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.”
-- Robin Leach
“The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.”
-- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
“I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.”
-- Rick Santorum
“Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.”
-- Rodrigo Rato
“The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.”
-- Martin Feldstein