Finance Quotes

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

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

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

My adversary is the world of finance.

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.