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" Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! "

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" A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. "

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" Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law. "

" The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates. "

" The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. "

Andrew Carnegie

" The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. "

" If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time. "

" The job of the Central Bank is to worry. "

" 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. "

" When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.' "

" During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful. "

" In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out. "

" It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this. "

" In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality. "

Ali Bongo Ondimba

" The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it. "

Blair Underwood

" When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought. "

" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "

Robert Rodriguez

" Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

" Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision. "

" It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance. "

Kenneth C. Griffin

" My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?' "

" Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short. "

" My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. "

Francois Hollande

" 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. "

" I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing. "

" Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge and underserve consumers. "

Taavet Hinrikus

" 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. "

" I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. "

" In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. "

" Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists. "

Carol W. Greider