"A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination." — Arthur Wing Pinero

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• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has… — Bergen Evans
• Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will… — P.G. Wodehouse
• In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every… — George Bernard Shaw
• I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who… — Oswald Spengler
• Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here… — Kate Chopin
• It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to… — Julian Barnes
• I heard Governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was.… — Rick Santorum
• The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to… — Edmund Burke
• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. — George Bernard Shaw
• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning… — Marcel Proust
• A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we… — Jean Giraudoux
• As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck. — Kevin Spacey

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