Quotes About Finance

In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.

Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own economy and putting money behind candidates.

I want to have a bank account that represents me being a pro athlete.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

I'm so bad with money, I had to hand all my cards over to my husband. It doesn't comprehend in my brain.

I don't want to spend all the money I've made and then have to hustle fight to fight.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

A two-year budget is not an ideology.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

We started CapitalSource because large banks were ignoring small to mid-sized businesses, and we saw a big business opportunity as a result.

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

We have not argued in either Brazil or Argentina that the IMF should step in to protect the banks.

The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing. I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact.

Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see.