Finance Quotes
574 quotes by 455 authors
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You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries
— Myles Munroe
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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…
— Merton Miller
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But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive…
— Martin Feldstein
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You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.
— Ruzwana Bashir
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The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many…
— David Boaz
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
— Mae West
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A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria,…
— S. J. Perelman
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government -…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect…
— Dick Gregory
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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this…
— Helen Fielding
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What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
— Robert Graves
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I…
— Nolan Bushnell
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What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand…
— Henry Mintzberg
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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
— Anita Roddick
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In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
— Charles Handy
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
— Anita Roddick
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Short-term can be terminal.
— Mark McCormack
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