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" Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance. "

Paul Tudor Jones

Life

Success

Focus

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" The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance. "

Justin Welby

Aware

Finance

" 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. "

" Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. "

" I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me. "

Joe Alwyn

Finance

See

" 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. "

" I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds. "

" A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. "

William Feather

Buying

Budget

" You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story. "

" For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all! "

" 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. "

" We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance. "

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

Hugh Hudson

Finance

Straightforward

" Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. "

" Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else. "

Yahoo Serious

Now

Office

" Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune. "

Andrew Tobias

Finance

Campaign

" Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get 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. "

" I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. "

" Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school. "

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

" I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that. "

" Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. "

" Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control. "

Ryan Holmes

Ground

Investment

" Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. "

" You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete. "

" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "

" Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. "

" The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. "

" But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. "

" 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. "