“I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.” HappensModernEssentialsFinanceBankingModern Society Author:Adam McKay
“While this is not a part of what Martin Shkreli`s being indicted for, there is sort of the overall picture of somebody who`s milking profits really off of patients who are poor in order to finance what at least what appears to be a lot of debt being built up in other businesses.” OrderPoorBuiltPatientProfitDebtFinance Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“There's more movies now than ever, and competition for the entertainment dollar. These movies aren't recouping the way they used to. These little producers used to make something for a million, and get on a roll. One would finance the next. They crap out eventually, but then they go start a new company. But these guys just aren't getting to first base.” WayFirstsLittlesUsedGuyNextCompanyMillionsDollarsCompetitionEntertainmentProducersFinanceCrapNew Company Author:Kurt Voss
“Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.” GovernmentCitizensObligationFinanceManageRevenueUnprecedentedProvinces Author:Rachel Notley
“I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.” WritingYearsFilmIndustryFinanceFilmmaking Author:Gabriel Campisi
“Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.” GivingWritingTryingYearsLongFilmGiving UpYears AgoResponseProductionsFinanceGet BackFilmmakingGave UpFilm Production Author:Gabriel Campisi
“Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.” ThinkingGovernmentWould BeObviousFinanceIrresponsibility Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“I suggested that countries with tighter finances think about such a [fuel] tax. We don't have the time at the moment for months of discussion.” ThinkingCountryMomentsMonthsTaxesFinanceDiscussionFuel Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.” HelpingWealthCompanyCareersPlayerGroupsManagementFinanceDurationFacilitate Author:Eddie George
“In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.” WantGovernmentLostTermPerfectCasesExampleAspectArmyMajorityPopulationFinanceParksSophisticatedElephantsNational ParksPoachingCameroonPoachers Author:Veronika Varekova
“The reality is we that have a corrupt campaign finance system which separates the American people's needs and desires from what Congress is doing. So to my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people have given up on the political process, stand up and fight back, demand the government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contribution - contributors.” PeopleNeedsMindRealityGovernmentPoliticalDesireFightingGivenProcessMillionsRevolutionDemandCongressCampaignsFinanceContributionHandfulGiven UpContributorsCampaign FinancePolitical RevolutionCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.” Has BeensGuyJusticePowerfulCompanyMillionsCasesEconomyStreetsBrokenWallFineActivityCriminalsBillionsCampaignsFinanceRuinsExecutivesIllegalCriminal JusticeRiggedCampaign FinanceGoldman SachsIllegal Activities Author:Bernie Sanders
“There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.” TryingBigsInterestIssuesStreetsWallElectionCampaignsFinanceCampaign FinanceResonating Author:Bernie Sanders
“Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.” IndividualMillionsDemocracyFourProudCampaignsFinanceCandidatesContributionDestroyingAmerican HistoryAmerican DemocracyPacsCampaign Finance Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldDifferentRealCharacterStoriesBigsHappensFilmStarsMediaDogEventsFinanceAfternoonMainstreamExplainingUndertakingsJuliaDifferent CharactersDog Days Author:Jodie Foster
“Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.” WorldBigsGrowthWealthFinanceSavingSmall BusinessSavingsBig Business Author:Jamie Dimon
“When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.” PlayHomeGamesNew YorkParticularMovedFolksReputationFinanceOccasionsInvitesInvited Author:Katy Lederer
“A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.” WorldStillsTwoRealUseSchoolTogetherCoursesCommunityLevelsNumbersFocusStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolConceptsFoundationMajorityMathStuckFinanceReal WorldApplicationCivicsPersonal FinanceCarnegieCommunity College Author:Anya Kamenetz
“Strangely, producing "Parisienne" was very long and difficult because the people who mainly finance films didn't understand the idea of a young foreign girl having a good time in Paris. They wanted to see her suffering and poor, and definitely not falling in love with three French men!” PeopleMenLongIdeasWantedFilmYoungSufferingFallGirlThreeDifficultPoorFalling In LoveFinanceParisGood TimesHaving A Good TimeNot Falling In Love Author:Danielle Arbid
“Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they virtually ignored manufacturing. I think of lot of the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s, and now more recently the 2000s can be traced pretty directly to the biases of the business schools.” ThinkingSchoolFocusTroubleOrganizationFinanceIgnoredTopicsManufacturingSuitableBusiness SchoolBlackboard Author:Charles R. Morris
“The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.” MeanFactsStuffLandPercentSevenChinaFinance Author:Dambisa Moyo
“It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.” ImportantRealFashionNew YorkCommunicationFinanceDevelopingVentureInfrastructureTourism Author:Juan Enriquez
“One of the things I've learned - before I would go on a show, I was like, "Oh God, I hate that show" or "That show is gonna get canceled." But now after being full-time on a show, you see how difficult it is and how much work goes into it and how so many decisions are based on finances or people's schedules or talent or location issues. It's a miracle that anything gets made.” PeopleMadeShowsHateDifficultDecisionIssuesTalentGoes OnMiracleI HateFinanceI've LearnedLocationSchedulesThings I've Learned Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances.” IfsHurtMillionsPlayerHappenedCollegeCostLuckyDollarsRoseFinancePlentyKneesComing OutLeisureTornShaq Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.” TodayAmericaGoldInvestmentFinanceSavingCrucialConsumptionSavingsImportsInsufficientAmerica Today Book:The great reckoning: how the world will change in the depression of the 1990s Source: The great reckoning: how the world will change in the depression of the 1990s
“You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.” WayKindLongMovingDesireGoalTermCan DoBusinessTalkingStepsPlansSecurityActivityInvestmentPlanningSettingFinanceSettingsLong TermSetting GoalsShort TermStockbrokers Author:Alan Lakein
“An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward.” ThinkingWorldWayMeanHelpingOrderEconomyEconomicBalancePartnersFinanceAlternativesIslamicWay ForwardEconomic Order Author:Tariq Ramadan
“It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.” StreetsWallEasierHarderFinanceConsumersIncumbents Author:Brad Katsuyama
“Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.” GivenArmyFinanceMonopoly Author:Vandana Shiva
“Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.” RealPayFireFlowFinanceGoodsEstatesShrinksPaymentTransfersPaychecksGoods And ServicesDeflationLeakage Author:Michael Hudson
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.” PeopleBrotherIndustryRepublicanPreparedCampaignsFinanceReformFuelFundFossilsFossil FuelCampaign Finance Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.” PeopleWantNumbersBallsFinance Author:Daniel Tosh
“Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.” DifferentWould BeFightingPerfectCreativityRightsEconomicAreasDeterminationImportanceCrisisBillsFinanceChairsHostWomens RightsCommitteesTenacityEconomic Crisis Author:Eleanor Smeal
“I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during the eight years leading up to the Great Recession, a lot of bets were made [and] risks taken that weren't good for the economy.” ThinkingNeedsYearsBelieveMadeI BelieveEconomyTakenRiskIndustryEightArguingFinanceRecessionsGreat Recession Author:Hillary Clinton
“I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.” ThinkingBigsEyeLyingStreetsWallEconomicsBlameFinanceMessAdministrationMortgageTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Hillary Clinton
“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.” ThinkingNeedsGovernmentActorsIndustryFinanceMortgage Author:Hillary Clinton
“I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.” ThinkingBelieveSelfBodyActionI BelieveSimpleAspectIncludingFinanceConsistentDaily LifeOur RelationshipMiraculous Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the population is the biggest problem. That is caused by two things: campaign finance and the way that's structured, and by the Citizen's United supreme court decision. So those two things are keeping democracy from working right.” PeopleThinkingWayTwoProblemInterestDecisionUnitedDemocracyInfluenceCitizensCourtPopulationCampaignsSupremeFinanceTwo ThingsSupreme CourtCampaign FinanceCourt Decision Author:Shepard Fairey
“I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.” PeopleWorldWayKindTermBreakDevelopmentReturnModelsSolutionsImpactInvestmentPatientInvestingFinancialExperimentsFinanceNew WaysPhilanthropyVentureVenture CapitalCapital Investment Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.” UsedDebtFinanceInsecurity Author:Kanye West
“I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.” PeopleThinkingFilmEasyFairsDirectPressureGenderFinanceInstanceJournalism Author:Natalie Portman
“We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught them a little bit about everything in hopes of them being able to have some takeaways that they'd be able to use in the future for their own careers. And I think we were pretty successful.” ThinkingLittlesUseShowsAbleBitsCareersSuccessfulTaughtLittle BitManagementMarketingHip HopWoundsFinanceHipsEnterpriseHopsBrandingSisterhoodTakeaways Author:MC Lyte
“Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.” FilmPartyCompanyConvincedFinanceSausageSony Author:David Krumholtz
“For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.” IfsWorldFilmMy OwnFinance Author:Rob Reiner
“I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.” ThinkingMatterEnoughEnjoySidesPhotographFinance Author:Garry Winogrand
“The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.” IfsWorldFirstsImportantMatterProblemCoursesProcessChallengesIssuesEconomicMiddleTaxesCrisisObviousEastDebateEndlessFinanceReformRelateAgendasMiddle EastLoadForumsEvasionOverloadEconomic IssuesSquabblesWorld PoliticsEconomic ReformsTax Evasion Author:Vladimir Putin
“We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.” NeedsAbleThreeLevelsEconomyMonthsPeriodsGoldTradeRussiaFinanceCurrencyReservesThree MonthsCentral BanksGeneral PublicTurnoverForeign Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those” NeedsInterestStudyIndustryCostBenefitsImpactFinanceAnalysisGamblingEconomistCost Benefit Analysis Author:John Warren Kindt
“Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.” LiteratureHoursEconomyProgressModernAmountProductivityFinanceMinistersWakingEnginesCapitalistAcademicQuestsOutputTime Is MoneyCapitalist Economy Author:Tim Jackson