Finance Quotes

574 Finance quotes by 455 unique authors

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. — Alistair Darling
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people… — Anthony Daniels
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance.… — Frank Gaffney
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance… — Timothy Geithner
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design… — John Kenneth Galbraith
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on… — David Foster Wallace
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants. — Alex James
For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their… — George Will
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the… — Boris Johnson
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 £5 and they will borrow £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

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