1. I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. - Barbara Feldon
2. Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. - Alexander John Ellis
3. Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. - Greer Garson
4. The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career. - Sal Khan
5. 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 marketer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going. - Nolan Bushnell
6. I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump
7. I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student. - Donald Trump
8. Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. - Elizabeth Warren
9. 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. - David Bowie
10. Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. - Hillary Clinton
11. In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. - Hillary Clinton
12. One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system. - Hillary Clinton
13. Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. - P. J. O'Rourke
14. In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar. - Billie Jean King
15. You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete. - Satya Nadella
16. 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
17. Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth. - Andrew Yang
18. Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks. - Suze Orman
19. The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. - Alan Greenspan
20. 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. - Edmund Hillary
21. I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. - Will Smith
22. As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone. - Jack Ma
23. The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it. - James Altucher
24. The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully. - James Altucher
25. The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it. - James Altucher
26. How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance. - Gordon B. Hinckley
27. Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations. - Warren Bennis
28. My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance. - Tyra Banks
29. I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know? - Leonardo DiCaprio
30. I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.' - Leonardo DiCaprio
31. Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that. - Donna Brazile
32. There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that. - Andrew Ng
33. 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. - Jim Hightower
34. Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance. - Kehinde Wiley
35. We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that. - John Legend
36. American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. - Clayton M. Christensen
37. Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. - William J. Clinton
38. I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money. - Nicholas Kristof
39. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. - Angela Merkel
40. 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
41. There are no patents in finance. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
42. Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
43. I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns. - Cory Booker
44. Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with. - N. R. Narayana Murthy
45. I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this. - N. R. Narayana Murthy
46. If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital. - Ken Robinson
47. There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women. - Olivia Wilde
48. The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation. - Alec Baldwin
49. If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. - Ron Chernow
50. There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising. - Peter Thiel
51. 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. - Yuval Noah Harari
52. In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done. - Elena Kagan
53. People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. - Carol Moseley Braun
54. The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for nontraditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. - Carol Moseley Braun
55. I was accepted into Cornell in 1979 and went there to follow a finance and business path. I ended up
pursuing marketing and sales because I was selected by Procter & Gamble as an undergraduate candidate to go
into its brand management program, which is typically available only to M.B.A. candidates. - Reggie Fils-Aime
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