Finance Quotes

“I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.”

-- Tim Roth

“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”

-- E. F. Schumacher

“Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.”

-- Hillary Clinton

“My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.”

-- Francois Hollande

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”

-- Honore de Balzac

“The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.”

-- Richard Armitage

“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”

-- J. Paul Getty

“My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.”

-- Merton Miller

“Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”

-- John Locke

“To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.”

-- Peter Schuyler