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" There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. "

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" And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job. "

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" 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. "

Martin Feldstein

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

John Maynard Keynes

" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. "

" Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market. "

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

" I made my money by selling too soon. "

" Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

" 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. "

" I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money. "

" There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.' "

" To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost. "

Laurence D. Fink

" I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes. "

" I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. "

" If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself. "

" When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought. "

" 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. "

" We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. "

" People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance. "

Sophie Kinsella

" A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it. "

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

" 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. "

John T. Chambers

" Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. "

" I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student. "

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

" If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital. "

" I don't really enjoy finance and accounting. "