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Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Finance Quotes

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3. Prudent financial advice from Polonius to son Laertes. Don’t lend or borrow money from a friend, he urges, as you will lost both your friend and your money. Besides borrowing makes people careless with money, he says.

We’ll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we’ll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don’t have today.

– Gray Davis

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you’ll understand economics, you’ll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

– Henry Mintzberg

Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although ‘Tsotsi’ the book was written in the ’60s, it was only published in the ’80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

– Gavin Hood

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

– Honore de Balzac

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

– Hjalmar Schacht

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

– George Reisman

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

– Henrik Ibsen

In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

– Hillary Clinton

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

– Honore de Balzac

Watch your finances like a hawk.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

– Herbert Hoover

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

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we’ll achieve a better world.

– Guy Laliberte

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 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

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

– Henry Ford

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

– Hillary Clinton

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

– John Locke

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that’s not equity, it’s just creating a society where you can’t ask anything of people.

– Jacques Delors

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

– Joel Osteen

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow – now.

– Jeff Sessions

We have this film that we hope to finance, it’s called ‘Southern Rights.’ It’s a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there’s a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.

– John Legend

What was once a fringe idea – finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States – is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

– John Delaney

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

– James Buchan

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

– John D. Rockefeller

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

– John Rawls

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

– James Altucher

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

– John D. Rockefeller

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