238 Quotes on Financial

• Do what you love, the money will follow.

  Author: Marsha Sinetar

• Success is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the impact you make on the lives of others.

  Author: Sarah Johnson

• Success is not defined by the size of your wallet, but by the impact you have on others.

  Author: Jasmine Patel

• Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the kindness you show others.

  Author: Samantha Johnson

• We are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• 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.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.

  Author: John Warner

• What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

  Author: James Walsh

• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  Author: David Wain

• I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

  Author: Charles Vest

• I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

  Author: Andrew Vachss

• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Author: Mark Udall

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  Author: Ted Turner

• You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.

  Author: John Tanner

• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  Author: William Sumner

• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  Author: William Sumner

• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  Author: William Sumner

• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

  Author: Larry Summers

• We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

  Author: Larry Summers

• We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

  Author: Saint Stephen

• In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

  Author: Carl Spitteler

• The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

  Author: George Soros

• On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  Author: Patti Smith

• As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

  Author: Martin Smith

• In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

  Author: Morley Safer

• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

  Author: Don Rose

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  Author: Zhu Rongji

• What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

  Author: Christina Romer

• You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.

  Author: Christina Romer

• I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

  Author: Romain Rolland

• I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

  Author: John Robinson

• Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

  Author: Cliff Richard

• Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

  Author: Mary Retton

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

  Author: Jules Renard

• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

  Author: Robert Reich

• And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.

  Author: Mark Pryor

• You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

  Author: Robert Plant

• Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

  Author: Ron Paul

• I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

  Author: Brian Palma

• When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

  Author: Wilfred Owen

• If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

  Author: Suze Orman

• Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.

  Author: Suze Orman

• I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

  Author: Steve Odland

• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'

  Author: Kristi Noem

• While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

  Author: Pola Negri

• Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.

  Author: Pola Negri

• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  Author: Augustus Napier

• Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

  Author: Oswald Mosley

• I want to give producers more financial security.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

  Author: John Moody

• Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

  Author: Ruth Minner

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  Author: C. Mills

• My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.

  Author: Merton Miller

• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  Author: J. Miller

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us.

  Author: Jean-Marie Messier

• On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.

  Author: Robert Manning

• Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

  Author: Sydney Madwed

• The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

  Author: Nia Long

• One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

  Author: Gyorgy Ligeti

• Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

  Author: Kenneth Lay

• I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

  Author: Kenneth Lay

• Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

  Author: Tom Lantos

• I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

  Author: Guy Laliberte

• 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.

  Author: Guy Laliberte

• You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

  Author: Bill Kurtis

• So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

  Author: David Korten

• And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

  Author: Allen Klein

• Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

  Author: Robert Kiyosaki

• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Author: Ron Kind

• The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

  Author: John Kellogg

• I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

  Author: Ric Keller

• In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.

  Author: Moshe Katsav

• The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Author: Moshe Katsav

• Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

  Author: Steve Kanaly

• You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

  Author: Star Jones

• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  Author: Gary Johnson

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  Author: Valerie Jarrett

• There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

  Author: Michael Ignatieff

• Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

  Author: King Hussein I

• The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

  Author: William Hurt

• As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

  Author: Brad Henry

• I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

  Author: Christie Hefner

• That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

  Author: Paul Hawken

• The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

  Author: Paul Hawken

• With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  Author: Garrett Hardin

• In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

  Author: Pauline Hanson

• I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

  Author: Daryl Hannah

• I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

  Author: Ruth Handler

• A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

  Author: William Greider

• It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.

  Author: Richard Grasso

• Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

  Author: Charles Grassley

• You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

  Author: Lauren Graham

• While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

  Author: Al Gore

• I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.

  Author: David Ginola

• Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

  Author: Robert Gibbs

• Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Financial crises require governments.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

  Author: Teri Garr

• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

  Author: Jerome Friedman

• Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

  Author: Linda Fiorentino

• Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• 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.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

  Author: Mike Farrell

• I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

  Author: Adam Faith

• Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

  Author: John Engler

• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

  Author: John Edwards

• The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

  Author: Dick Ebersol

• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

  Author: Bernard Ebbers

• I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

  Author: Esther Dyson

• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Author: Arnie Duncan

• I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

  Author: Jerry Doyle

• Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

  Author: Richard Dooling

• The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

  Author: Placido Domingo

• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  Author: Walt Disney

• It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

  Author: Bill Delahunt

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  Author: Nathan Deal

• If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

  Author: Mitch Daniels

• But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

  Author: Mitch Daniels

• Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

  Author: John Cusack

• Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

  Author: Doug Coupland

• The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

  Author: Jim Costa

• If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

  Author: Scott Cook

• Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

  Author: Scott Cook

• The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

  Author: Norm Coleman

• One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

  Author: Ron Chernow

• As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

  Author: Ron Chernow

• For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

  Author: Jackie Chan

• In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

  Author: David Cassidy

• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

  Author: Vince Cable

• And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

  Author: Charlie Byrd

• The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

  Author: George Bush

• So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

  Author: George Bush

• But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

  Author: Solomon Burke

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  Author: Warren Buffett

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Warren Buffett

• When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

  Author: Lindsey Buckingham

• Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

  Author: John Bruton

• The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

  Author: John Bruton

• But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

  Author: John Bruton

• If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

  Author: John Bruton

• So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

  Author: Gordon Brown

• My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

  Author: Poppy Brite

• I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

  Author: Peter Brimelow

• Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

  Author: Richard Branson

• So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

  Author: Bjorn Borg

• Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

  Author: Jo Bonner

• At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as "panics" - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.

  Author: Jo Bonner

• Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

  Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

• Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

  Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  Author: Earl Blumenauer

• The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

  Author: Bradley Blakeman

• I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

  Author: Joe Biden

• Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

  Author: Ben Bernanke

• I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

  Author: Candice Bergen

• In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.

  Author: Carol Bellamy

• As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

  Author: Melissa Bean

• Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

  Author: Evan Bayh

• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  Author: Charles Baudelaire

• State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

  Author: Charles Bass

• The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

  Author: Peter Bart

• People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

  Author: John Barrow

• I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

  Author: Steve Ballmer

• Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

  Author: Steve Ballmer

• There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

  Author: Kevin Bacon

• Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

  Author: Spencer Bachus

• I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

  Author: Bruce Babbitt

• My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

  Author: Kenneth Arrow

• We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

  Author: Gerard Arpey

• Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

  Author: Gerard Arpey

• Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

  Author: Michael Apted

• It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

  Author: Walter Annenberg

• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

  Author: Woody Allen

• Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

  Author: Robert Allen

• It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

  Author: Daniel Akaka

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