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Quotes About Finance

We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.
~ Unknown
The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.
~ William Gibson
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
~ Winston Churchill
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
~ David Harvey
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
~ James Madison
Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless
~ Unknown
I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
~ Abel Ferrara
Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.
~ Hugh Herr
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.
~ Robert Haugen
They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.
~ James Wright
What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.
~ Whitney Tilson
Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.
~ Mariana Mazzucato
It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.
~ Unknown
I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.
~ David Brooks
Form follows finances instead of function.
~ Ira Flatow
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.
~ Martin Mayer
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .
~ Robert Heilbroner
High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
~ Vanna Bonta
The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.
~ Nathan Fillion
I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.
~ Hillary Clinton
Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.
~ Elizabeth Warren