Quotes on Financial

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

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

Author: Robert Allen

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

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

Author: Gerard Arpey

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

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

Author: Peter Bart

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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 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

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Author: Arthur Blank

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

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

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Author: Peter Brimelow

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

Author: Gordon Brown

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

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

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

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Author: Warren Buffett

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Charlie Byrd

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

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

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

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

Author: Scott Cook

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

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

Author: John Cusack

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

Author: Bill Delahunt

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Author: Placido Domingo

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

Author: Jerry Doyle

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

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

Author: Philip Emeagwali

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

Author: John Engler

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

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

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

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

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

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

Financial crises require governments.

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Lauren Graham

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

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

Author: Ruth Handler

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

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

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

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

Author: Michael Ignatieff

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

Author: Valerie Jarrett

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Edward Kennedy

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

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

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

Author: Bill Kurtis

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

Author: Kenneth Lay

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

Author: Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Ruth Minner

I want to give producers more financial security.

Author: Estelle Morris

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

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

Author: Judd Nelson

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

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

Author: Joel Osteen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Jules Renard

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

Author: John Robinson

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

Author: Romain Rolland

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

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

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

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

Author: Paul Samuelson

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Carl Spitteler

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Author: Saint Stephen

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

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

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

Author: John Tanner

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

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

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Author: Sanford Weill

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

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

Author: Douglas Wood

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

Author: Victoria Woodhull

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

Author: Margaret Thatcher

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

Author: Samantha 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 measured by the size of your bank account, but by the impact you make on the lives of others.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Do what you love, the money will follow.

Author: Marsha Sinetar