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Finance Quotes


"A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now."


"The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy."


"But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level."


"It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it."


"What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines."


"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."


"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."


"So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?"


"A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided."


"My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job."


"Cosmic Ordering cultivates prosperity daily."


"To acquire great wealth quickly you must be a person who shares generously."


"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."


"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure."


"Never exchange your life for a penny."


"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."


"The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000."


"A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing."


"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."


"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners."


"Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater."


"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."


"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on 'their' house and spending less of it on 'their' car or cars only when they start being able to take 'their' house to work, funerals, weddings, etc."



"If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending."


"Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth."


"Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets."


"Your future self would surely thank your present self if you start to wisely invest your money now."


"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."


"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money."



"Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture."


"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."


"It is no more appropriate to speak of a difference between the purchasing power of money in Germany and in Austria than it would be justifiable to conclude from differences between the prices charged by hotels on the peaks and in the valleys of the Alps that the objective exchange-value of money is different in the two situations and to formulate some such proposition as that the purchasing power of money varies inversely with the height above sea-level. The purchasing power of money is the same everywhere, only the commodities offered are not the same."


"When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money."


"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."


"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."


"God will always respond to our responsible management of the riches we have received from Him with promotion and stability."
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