If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit – and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that. – Najib Razak
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. – Dick Cavett
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country’s taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. – Frank Gaffney
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future – bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. – Elizabeth Warren
When you’re building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component – finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency. – Michael J. Saylor
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That’s where they – all these problems come from. – Geoffrey West
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. – Friedrich August von Hayek
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. – Martin Feldstein
I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I’d stuck at it, I imagine that I’d be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don’t think I’d have made it. – Matteo Manassero
Let’s not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show. – David Blunkett
I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I’m very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren’t aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them. – Morgan Fairchild
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. – David Ricardo
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It’s important for a woman to be able to control her finances. – Maria Bartiromo
Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised. – Noreena Hertz
‘Survivor’ wouldn’t have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on ‘Survivor’ was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. – Mark Burnett
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high. – Mariano Rajoy
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. – David Dinkins
Advances in technology – hugely beneficial though they are – render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. – Martin Rees
As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. – Francois Englert
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. – Francis Ford Coppola
Let’s not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns. – Fred Thompson
To beat the market you’ll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. – Merton Miller
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
At this point, I don’t get hired a lot because people don’t think I could finance a movie. – Martha Plimpton