“There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.” NeedsPoliticalTurnsLinesAttitudeLeaderEconomicProduceBenefitsFinancialReformCourageousEthicalNeverthelessPolitical LeadersEconomic Reforms Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.” LongEnergyTermCompanyProduceBuildingPressureFinancialChiefsBoardsLong TermExecutivesExpensesOfficersEarningFinancial MarketsTakeoversChief Executives Author:J. Irwin Miller
“If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.” IfsWorldStatesNationsInterestWealthUnitedUnited StatesProduceInspireDirectorsGainsFinancialSubstanceBoardsInvestorsModeratesImperativesBoard Of Directors Author:B. C. Forbes
“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.” ChallengesDecisionCenturyProduceCapitalismFinancialArchitectureTwentieth CenturyDegenerates Author:Will Hutton
“It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.” MenKindDifferentRunningAbleGivenInterestProduceInstitutionsRateFinancialSmoothEarningScenariosInterest RateFinancial Institutions Author:Warren Buffett