Quotes About Funds

Tax arrangements can be incredibly complicated and are sometimes made deliberately so, which is why some people pay vast sums of money to put their funds in offshore tax havens like Panama, which is notoriously secretive.

Why do investors seem to care about 'billion dollar exits?' Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies.

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.

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

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

He beseeches us pitiably for funds, donations, alms, and oblations so as to grow and nourish his noble monolith. Called "Wikipedia," it's a publicly built superencyclopedia. It is our obligation to bankroll it, he says: without Wikipedia we would just revert to our former status of cave-men, larvae, algae, and scum.

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

The dominant classes in the South might divert the funds towards the creation of an America instead, with vastly well-off sector living in protected zones, separated from rest of the population by well crafted cordons sanitaires.

Enough funds remain to support her longer than she expects to live.

Lacking wealthy benefactors or steady access to resources, BLA (Black Liberation Army) cells often relied on bank robberies to secure funds (a tactic revolutionaries call "expropriations," for it involves taking money that capitalist institutions have secured through other people's labor and using it ostensibly to further liberatory ends).

The Rothschilds developed the very idea of the international investment bank – they could transfer their funds wherever there was peace and prosperity, and thus enjoy high interest on their investments no matter what the situation was. Importantly, they were happy to fund private and government ventures by lending money. These two factors made them a financial machine of a completely new sort.

Smith apparently did not submit his own land in Harmony, Pennsylvania, to the Law of Consecration. Prior to leaving Harmony, Smith made the final payment for the property to Isaac Hale, his father-in-law, by borrowing money from George H. Noble & Co. for $190.95. This debt was satisfied before June 3, 1831, but it is unknown where Smith got the funds. Sometime before June 1833, Smith sold the Harmony land to Joseph McKune for $300. What happened to this money is also unknown.37

If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.

Buying funds based purely on their past performance is one of the stupidest things an investor can do.

The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions.

These companies reap huge profits, a few local elite business owners benefit from the improved infrastructure, and everyone else suffers because funds are diverted from health services, education, and other public sectors to pay interest on the loans. The debts are so large they can't be repaid. The lower-income countries default on their loans. This process is sometimes referred to as debt-trap diplomacy.

The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

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.