Finance Quotes

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I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. — Joseph O'Connor
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British Â£5 and they will borrow Â£25 and spend it. — John Major
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts. — Julius Nyerere
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. — Chinua Achebe
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game. — John Ensign
An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those… — George Papandreou
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is… — Joseph Stiglitz
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously… — Ha-Joon Chang
It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. — Phil Angelides
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving. — John Lanchester
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London… — Jim Rogers
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs. — Felix Rohatyn
The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL. — Michael Lewis
The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis… — Richard Shelby
In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more… — Michael Enzi
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do… — George W. Bush

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