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

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" These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. "

" While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear. "

" You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible. "

" Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services. "

Hassanal Bolkiah

" As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion. "

" One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married. "

David Schweikert

" If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. "

" I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.' "

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

" In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us. "

" As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. "

" 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. "

" As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident. "

Tilman J. Fertitta

" Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "

" I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. "

Milton Friedman

" By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0. "

Brian Armstrong

" I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. "

Honore de Balzac

" The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. "

John D. Rockefeller

" There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about 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

" 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

" Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world. "

" The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. "

" Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. "

" People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone. "

" This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. "

" 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'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

" 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. "

" 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