finance
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘finance’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.” -Rodrigo Rato
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“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
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“Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it’s not there yet. It falls short.” -Susan Collins
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“I don’t plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.” -Nick Johnson
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“To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.” -Peter Schuyler
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“Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.” -Hassanal Bolkiah
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“Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.” -Ne-Yo
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“I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn’t finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn’t get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let’s do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.” -Bille August
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“Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.” -Mariano Rajoy
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“Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.” -Andrew Card
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“I’ve been writing a lot, I’ve a few projects I’m trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing… Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I’d be thrilled.” -Paul M. Glaser
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“Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.” -Andrew Tobias
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“The confidence is really driven by the woman – whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending – but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.” -Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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“The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.” -Richard Armitage
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“Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.” -John Patrick
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“The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.” -Pete McCloskey
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“I understand that finance can be very complex.” -Kevin Harrington
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“The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances the use of Tax Incremental Finance and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.” -Andy Sawford
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“If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.” -Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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“Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.” -Alistair Darling
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“Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.” -Merton Miller
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“In the long term, Germany didn’t need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.” -Wolfgang Schauble
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“What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.” -James L. Buckley
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“We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.” -Tom Daschle
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“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.” -Andrew Lo
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“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.” -Marcy Kaptur
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“I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing ‘Bridget Jones’ to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.” -Helen Fielding
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“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
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“Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there’s a huge number of people up for them. I’m not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.” -Joely Richardson
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“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used…
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“I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.” -John Hurt
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“It’s very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it’s oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.” -Mark Rydell
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“As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today’s workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.” -Steve Israel
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“I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.” -Mathias Rust