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" Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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" My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be. "

" It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. "

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

John Maynard Keynes

" There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud. "

" 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 has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. "

" I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence. "

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "

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" I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any. "

" When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency. "

Michael J. Saylor

" 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. "

" By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries. "

Steve Jurvetson

" As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone. "

" Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show. "

" In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators. "

Perianne Boring

" 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. "

" Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. "

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" And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. "

Timothy Geithner

" 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.' "

" If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance. "

Brandon Stanton

" Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product. "

" I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field. "

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

" 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. "

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

John D. Rockefeller

" You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge and underserve consumers. "

Taavet Hinrikus

" Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! "