“You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.”
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“The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.”
“It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.”
“I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.”
“I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.”
“The job of the Central Bank is to worry.”
“Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.”
“As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.”
“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”
“If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.”
“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.”
“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.”
“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.”
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”
“Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.”
“At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.”
“We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.”
“I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.”
“My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.”
“My adversary is the world of finance.”
“I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.”
“These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.”
“In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.”