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" Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Martin Feldstein

" 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

" For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries. "

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

" In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going. "

" 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 worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks. "

" Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. "

" If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are? "

" If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business. "

Natalie Massenet

" I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office. "

Avigdor Lieberman

" Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture. "

" There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. "

" It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever. "

Dominic Holland

" Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles. "

Louis Farrakhan

" 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

" Inflation is taxation without legislation. "

Milton Friedman

" Money is the best rule of commerce. "

" Finance, like time, devours its own children. "

Honore de Balzac

" In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality. "

Ali Bongo Ondimba

" 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. "

" When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and distribution, and really focusing on news, sports, finance - the things that uniquely Yahoo was really terrific at - and really build that whole flywheel. "

" All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. "

" In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end. "

Wolfgang Schauble

" Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

" In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films. "

Bruce Beresford

" The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. "

" 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. "