Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Henry Paulson
Comfort
Stop
Important
Related Quotes:
" I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical. "
Henry Paulson
Think
Leadership
Character
" 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. "
Alan Greenspan
Value
Protect
Gold
" The important source of finance is now commercial papers, bonds, and so on. "
Chanda Kochhar
Important
Finance
Bonds
" As long as I can remember, I had a strong interest in fishing, and my parents, even though they had never fished or camped, took us on canoe camping trips in the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, where I could fish to my heart's content. "
Henry Paulson
Fish
Fishing
Heart
" 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. "
Robert F. Engle
Risks
Finance
Choose
" The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. "
Alfred Marshall
Change
Far
Finance
" I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words. "
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Family
Work
Words
" As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses. "
Henry Paulson
Risk
Pay
Like
" The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. "
Dave Ramsey
Knowledge
Good
Finance
" There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. "
Charlie Munger
Investment
Honor
Finance
" Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. "
Greer Garson
Good
Money
You
" I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student. "
Donald Trump
Place
Finance
Student
" It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. "
Albert Camus
Happy
Money
Spiritual
" We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work. "
Henry Paulson
Work
Way
Flaws
" If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out. "
Henry Paulson
Know
You
Take
" 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. "
Susan Collins
Health
Finance
Effort
" I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments. "
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Finance
Saying
People
" In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition. "
Henry Paulson
Limit
Competition
Favor
" Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is not looking to follow a Western model based on universal suffrage. That is for sure. "
Henry Paulson
Changes
Strong
Looking
" 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
Man
Team
Woman
" It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. "
Ron Lewis
Financial
Society
Finance
" What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners. "
Henry Paulson
Home
Down
Responsible
" Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law. "
Luther Strange
Every Day
Day
You
" When it comes to the presidency, I will not vote for Donald Trump. "
Henry Paulson
Presidency
Donald Trump
Vote
" As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections. "
John Harwood
Finance
Influence
Special
" My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around. "
Whit Stillman
Writing
Cool
Doing
" I'd encourage more young people to apply their talents beyond finance and consulting and to think about reshaping how medicines are brought to market and how the business is run. "
Vivek Ramaswamy
Run
Business
Finance
" Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. "
Elizabeth Warren
Finance
Future
Money
" A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well. "
Natalia Kills
Progress
Time
Think
" We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things. "
Henry Paulson
People
Why
Beginning