Finance Quotes

Would you believe it if someone told you that ‘literature’ was formerly an art and finance a trade, but now finance more of an ‘art’ and literature is less of a ‘trade’? You better believe it, because this really is the truth. To survive in a world that mostly revolves around finance, it is as good as a must to be innovative and tactful. If you are willing to look at the larger picture, you will notice that almost every successful enterprise enjoys the success that it does because of a well chalked out approach to finances. Read on for famous quotations and sayings on funding.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Money
Donald Trump

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My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.
Management Mothers
Henry Cavill

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Taxes
John Maynard Keynes

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

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All money is a matter of belief.
Belief Money
Adam Smith

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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
Money
John D. Rockefeller

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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
George Soros

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Community Trust Good
Andrew Carnegie

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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.
People Morning
Henry Ford

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Animals Race
Adam Smith

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In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
Money Law
Elena Kagan

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I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns.
Value
Cory Booker

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Jules Renard

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There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.
People Trying
Kelsey Grammer

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The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.
Smile Face
Mark Cuban

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Greatness Wealth
Epictetus

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Travelling
Margaret Thatcher

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Nothing World Death
Benjamin Franklin

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New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.
Culture World
Jared Kushner

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As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Change Time
Kevin Spacey

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Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.
Conduct Experience Togetherness
Warren G. Bennis

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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
Money
Lee Iacocca

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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
Business Women
Billie Jean King

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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Greatness
Benjamin Franklin

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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.
Hope
John Legend

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Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
Money Business
Bill Clinton

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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Good
Will Rogers

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Time Children
Honoré de Balzac

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Watch your finances like a hawk.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.
Will Smith

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One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
Greatness Politics Education
Sarah Jessica Parker

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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Demolition
Warren Buffett

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw

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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.
Nation
Hillary Clinton

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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
Money
David Bowie

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Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true.
Steven Seagal

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Race
Honoré de Balzac

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Good World
Benjamin Franklin

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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Money People
Albert Camus

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I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Education Effort Women
Angela Merkel

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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.
Decision
Hillary Clinton

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I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.'
Opportunities Time
Leonardo DiCaprio

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I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.
Greatness School
Donald Trump

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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
Right School Women
Olivia Wilde

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The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
Life
Alec Baldwin

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I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
Greatness School
Donald Trump

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My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
Business School
Tyra Banks

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