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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.

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Quotes by Ross Levinsohn

Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.

Quotes by Roshni Nadar

We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance.

Quotes by Ron Williams

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Quotes by Ron Lewis

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Quotes by Ron Lewis

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Quotes by Ron Chernow

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

Quotes by Rodrigo Rato

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

Quotes by Robin Leach

When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

Quotes by Robert Zoellick

During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would...

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

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

Quotes by Robert Graves

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but...

Quotes by Robert F. Engle

The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical...

Quotes by Robert C. Merton

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while...

Quotes by Robert C. Merton

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Quotes by Rob Thomas

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get...

Quotes by Ricky Schroder

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Quotes by Richard Wagner

I think there is an overwhelming support for campaign finance reform, and that includes conservatives and Republicans. Where the problem is is with the leadership; with the politicians who are benefiting from the big campaign contributions, and the dark money...

Quotes by Richard Painter

I've been a pain in the rear for the Republican Party, and if I were to continue to be involved in the Democratic Party, I will continue to be a pain in the rear on campaign finance, health care, the...

Quotes by Richard Painter

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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.