Finance Quotes

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

Tim Roth

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Robert Graves

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

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Suze Orman

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

Wilfrid Laurier

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

Tadao Ando

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

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Muhammad Yunus

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

David Ricardo

I understand that finance can be very complex.

Kevin Harrington

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Ehud Barak

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

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

Mariano Rajoy

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Hillary Clinton

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

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Mario Puzo

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Evan Davis