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" Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. "

Benjamin Franklin

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" I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. "

" Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds. "

Francois Hollande

" 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. "

" Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. "

" Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics. "

" When the well is dry, they know the worth of water. "

Benjamin Franklin

" God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' "

Benjamin Franklin

" It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month. "

" Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power. "

" Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. "

Alfred Marshall

" 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. "

" It's hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications. "

" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "

" It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. "

" The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. "

" Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business. "

" I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments. "

Stephen A. Schwarzman

" It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity. "

" Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. "

Benjamin Franklin

" 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. "

" Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers... and they come, and they tell a very convincing story. "

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" He that can have patience can have what he will. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Half a truth is often a great lie. "

Benjamin Franklin

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

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