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" We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances. "

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" Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. "

Andrew Carnegie

" The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades. "

" I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it. "

Matteo Manassero

" Watch your finances like a hawk. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

John Maynard Keynes

" The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. "

" I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. "

" Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. "

" When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker. "

" Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. "

Ludwig von Mises

" The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools. "

Robert C. Merton

" I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act. "

" The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change. "

" Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters. "

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

" We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. "

" When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks. "

" What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. "

" It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. "

" For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. "

" The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked. "

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

" In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. "

" Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank. "

" 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.' "

" 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 is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage. "

" 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

" I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. "

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