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" I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes. "

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" Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. "

" If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. "

George Bernard Shaw

" World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore. "

" I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. "

" When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and distribution, and really focusing on news, sports, finance - the things that uniquely Yahoo was really terrific at - and really build that whole flywheel. "

" 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. "

" If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that. "

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

" I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy. "

" I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. "

" I made my money by selling too soon. "

" Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

James L. Buckley

" 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. "

" Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised. "

" Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. "

" Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work. "

Thomas Kean, Jr.

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

" There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. "

" 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

" My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. "

" If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that. "

" Inflation is taxation without legislation. "

Milton Friedman

" I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. "

" We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. "

" I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally. "

" The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business. "

" In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication. "

Peter Middlebrook

" I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. "

" It starts with campaign finance reform. "