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Finance Quotes
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
98
"We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies."
33
"Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges."
32
"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
19
"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."
18
"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."
15
"For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us."
10
"Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system."
9
"Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows."
8
"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."
8
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
7
"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
7
"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy."
7
"Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004."
7
"We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building."
7
"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe."
7
"It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy."
6
"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way."
6
"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do."
6
"It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security."
6
"The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country."
6
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
6
"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
6
"Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election."
5
"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."
5
"Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state."
5
"I strongly support tax relief for the middle class."
5
"Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms."
5
"Financial crises require governments."
5
"I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge."
5
"I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price."
5
"It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance."
5
"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."
5
"Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through."
5
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