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" Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society. "

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" We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today. "

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" Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time. "

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" Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth. "

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" Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. "

" 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.' "

" When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks. "

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" Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. "

" In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. "

" It's hard to have any idea of how much money is enough to finance an appropriate lifestyle in retirement. But if a lump sum is translated into a monthly income, it's much easier to determine whether you have enough put away to afford to stop working. "

" I really love being finance director. "

" Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense mathematics, but only for show. "

" Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation. "

" Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world. "

" I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. "

" If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. "

" After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance. "

" At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie. "

" It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar. "

Hugh Hudson

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" The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully. "

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

" Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment. "

" The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. "

" I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance. "

" In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end. "

Wolfgang Schauble

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" Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. "

" After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try. "

" To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost. "

" I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. "

" The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom. "

" A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. "