#finance

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

— Allan Lokos

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

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#finance #memory #recession #responsibility #experience

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

My only allegiance is to my country.  The success of our country is built on hard work, sacrifice, innovation, integrity, and confidence.  How can you be confident if you can’t get a job?  How can you be confident if the mortgage on your home is higher than your home’s value?  How can you be confident when our elected officials haven’t given us one single idea how to fix this situation? – Jeremy Lyons ↗

— Marvin H. McIntyre

#financial #fiscal-cliff #inside-out #mortgage #thriller

I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don’t have. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#prosperity #rabbi-celso #love

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#money

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. ↗

— James Garfield

#control #depression #economy #finances #government

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#government #politics #thievery #united-states #economy

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#finance #life #moral #success #experience

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

— John C. Bogle

#intelligence