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" If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are? "

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" My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be. "

Gary Johnson

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" I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. "

" From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out. "

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

" Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that. "

" There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded. "

" In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done. "

" I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too. "

" Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not. "

" I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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" It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. "

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

" I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act. "

" Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product. "

" The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. "

" I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence. "

" Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice. "

" Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes. "

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

" The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. "

Morrissey

" There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world. "

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

" I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front. "

" We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that. "

" I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are. "

" 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. "

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

" I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. "

" The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. "

" In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. "