Comparison Quote by Rachel Riley

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was…

— Jimmy O. Yang

My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.

— Steve Eisman

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

— Bruno Tonioli

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

— Donald Trump

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both…

— Paul Nurse

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

— Poppy Z. Brite

I grew up in Finance.

— Jamie S. Miller

I studied finance and accounting in college, and I worked at a massive accounting firm out of graduation.

— Simu Liu

My parents always talked to me in full sentences and were really interested in investing in my potential.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

— Mike McCue

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

— Herb Ritts