Finance Quotes - Page 4

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.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

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.

I think we're so addicted to bubble finance at the Fed that they can't get out of the corner they painted themselves into. I think the Fed is making federal debt so cheap that Congress has no interest, Washington has no incentive to ever face up to our massive fiscal gap that is going to grow, and grow as we go forward in time and so we have a paralyzed system.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.

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.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.