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" It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity. "

Marianne Lake

Opportunity

Leadership

Focus

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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. "

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" The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. "

" 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. "

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

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

Najib Razak

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" Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from. "

" 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. "

" The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. "

" I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago. "

" George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life. "

" Inflation is taxation without legislation. "

" Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. "

" One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system. "

" Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. "

" The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate. "

" I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them. "

" You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. "

" I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. "

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

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

" Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation. "

" The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult. "

" A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security. "

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

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

" In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films. "

Bruce Beresford

Government

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

Work

Best

" I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. "

" One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. "

" Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction. "