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- Nov 07, 2020
Finance Quotes
Most Famous Finance Quotes of All Time!
Finance here stretches from national policy debates - like the complexity of campaign finance reform among well-funded leaders - to a memorably blunt warning that certain derivatives can be as destructive as any weapon. It's a fitting complement to our Financial Crisis collection.
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- Governs
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
- Campaign Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.
- Possessions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
- Consultant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Baffling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever.
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