Finance Quotations

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

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running
a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of
trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton

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

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Mario Puzo

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
Tadao Ando

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just
to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
Yahoo Serious

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd
finally cobbled together our low budget film.
Yahoo Serious

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the
duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and
providing it.
Wilfrid Laurier

"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin." -
Mae West

"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears." - Robert
W. Sarnoff
"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda
will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." - C. Northcote Parkinson

"Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still
traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our
assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics." - Paula
Nelson

"What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human
love." - Robert Graves

"The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant." - Jonathan Glancey

"What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human
love." - Robert Graves

"The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide
domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned
world." - Edwin T. Freedley

"We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson

"Of course I'm doing something about my overdraft: I'm seeing my accountant." - Barry Fantoni

"The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied
Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government." -
William Pitt The Elder, Lord Chatham

"You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without
diluting the stock." - Paul Cook

"It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the
way the world is." - John C. Burton

"The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and
equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to
secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his
proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds." - Edmund Burke

"I wake up every morning and thank God I?m not a chartered accountant any longer, but
involved with property." - Godfrey Bradman
"What is high finance? It?s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting
and adding. You just add noughts. It?s no more than that." - John Bentley

"It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading." -
Mary Archer

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available,
there will be a big improvement in the situation.
Sanjay Kumar

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

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

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 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 got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

Penelope Spheeris

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to
see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
Merton Miller

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

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
Bernie Ebbers

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
Mathias Rust
I only make movies to finance my fishing'.
Lee Marvin

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of
guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very
damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
Timothy Geithner

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 wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release,
we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok,
let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
Bille August

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance
- but there were decisions that I had to make.
Shimon Peres

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

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of
money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at
the bottom of the wage ladder.
William Greider

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The
prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments,
and to extremely wealthy individuals.
Ron Chernow

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of
finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
Billie Jean King

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running
a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of
trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You
could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
Bruce Beresford

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its
deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls

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.
Elena Kagan

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not
in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the
duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and
providing it.
Wilfrid Laurier

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
Robin Leach

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Zack Space

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of
independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the
studios are reluctant to finance.
Mark Rydell

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the
Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
Fred Thompson

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

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance,
marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.
John Patrick

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

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

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just
to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
Yahoo Serious

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

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government
and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance
Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Carol Moseley Braun

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance
liberation struggles.
Louis Farrakhan

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York.
The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
David Dinkins

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

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National
Association of Broadcasters.
Robert McChesney

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person
thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's
just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
Jacques Delors

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to
statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-
traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
Carol Moseley Braun

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must
look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
Pete McCloskey

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

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year.
Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues -
and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
Renny Harlin

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level -
everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Jim Hightower

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd
finally cobbled together our low budget film.
Yahoo Serious

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

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets
like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.
Martin Feldstein

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system
was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of
influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe

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

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
Tom Daschle

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance
it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
Sherrod Brown

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power.
And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us
leverage we don't have today.
Gray Davis

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

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves

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

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
Merton Miller