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Finance Quotes
"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."
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"On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States."
22
"We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations."
22
"I strongly support tax relief for the middle class."
21
"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy."
20
"If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals."
20
"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
20
"We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics."
20
"To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections."
19
"All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets."
19
"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub."
19
"Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed."
19
"We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions."
19
"We have brought two hundred million people into the banking system through the Jan Dhan Yojana. This is more than the population of most countries in the world. Now, these millions are part of our banking system, and words like 'interest rate' have a meaning for them."
19
"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."
19
"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."
18
"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."
18
"While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment."
18
"As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement."
18
"Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004."
18
"A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now."
18
"The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected."
18
"I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification."
18
"We have met ambitious fiscal targets in each of the previous two fiscal years. We have reduced the deficit even while increasing capital expenditure."
18
"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
17
"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure."
17
"What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion."
17
"So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services."
17
"Financial crises require governments."
17
"Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else."
17
"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."
17
"Invested wisely, time produces a good return. Invested poorly, it has little or no value and is therefore wasted."
17
"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals."
16
"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."
16
"Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation."
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