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Finance here stretches from national policy debates - like the complexity of campaign finance reform among well-funded leaders - to a memorably blunt warning that certain derivatives can be as destructive as any weapon. It's a fitting complement to our Financial Crisis collection.

If you really think about the fabric of the United States, or the finance of any economy, finance is a true underpinning of what makes the economy great - if it can be done successfully, responsibly, and with a client...

Quotes by Adena Friedman

All money is a matter of belief.

Quotes by Adam Smith

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

Quotes by Aaron Patzer

Financed Quotes

Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part...

Quotes by Zephyr Teachout

Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.

Quotes by Zanny Minton Beddoes

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Quotes by Zack Space

Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a...

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought.

Quotes by Yael Cohen

Finances Quotes

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Quotes by Yahoo Serious

Money is the best rule of commerce.

Quotes by William Petty

For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized...

Quotes by William Kircher

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.

Quotes by William J. Clinton

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Quotes by William Greider

Financial Quotes

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the...

Quotes by William Greider

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

Quotes by Will Poulter

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.

Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Warren Buffett

In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government...

Quotes by Wang Shi

Financial Crisis Quotes

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Quotes by Walter Annenberg

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Frequently Asked Questions

What topics does this Finance quotes collection cover?
It's fairly technical - campaign finance reform, derivatives being called a dangerous weapon of modern markets, how cities get bailed out differently across countries, and how developing economies benefit from access to outside capital.
Why do people search for finance quotes?
Finance topics can be dense, so people look for a short, memorable line that sums up a bigger idea, like a warning about risk or a comment on how Financial systems really work.
What's meant by calling derivatives 'financial weapons of mass destruction'?
It's a warning about how complex financial instruments can spread risk unpredictably through an economy, potentially causing damage far beyond the parties who originally created them.
Does this collection touch on how governments handle financial trouble?
Yes - one quote contrasts how a struggling Western city would simply go bankrupt, while a city elsewhere in the same position gets subsidized by a national finance ministry instead.
How can these finance quotes be used?
They suit posts about economics, investing caution, or discussions around a Financial Crisis, and pair well with broader Finances content for personal money topics.

There's also a broader view of how developing economies benefit from access to outside capital, deeper markets, and new technology. For more on institutional money matters, browse our Financial quotes.