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"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."
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"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
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Personal Development

"When you work hard in a job that suits your living standards, never greed for fortune because you will distract yourself from fulfilling other important priorities and participating in leisure activities in your current life. You will eventually gain the fortune if you set up a wise investment goal by having pride and confidence on your savings."
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"The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands."
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"If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow."
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Personal Development

"You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo."
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Personal Development

"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration."
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Personal Development

"What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking."
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"It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security."
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"In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems."
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"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
Thinking


"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."
Knowledge


"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."
People


"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."
Technology


"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
Architecture


"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
Architecture


"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
Architecture


"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."
Architecture


"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage."
Time


"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."
Nature
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