#finance

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#business #compassion-love #finance #mindfulness #occupy

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#big #capital #critical #finance #improvement

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#money

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man. ↗

— Niall Ferguson

#financial-history #history #money #money

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft. ↗

— John C. Bogle

#intelligence

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#available #back #bring #broadway #come

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ↗

— Albert Camus

#be happy #happy #kind #makes #money

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

#almost #breaches #business #communications #confidential

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

#campaign #campaign finance #campaigns #chinese #congressional