#finance

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #business #comfortable #competent #concerned

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. ↗

— Alistair Darling

#finance #goal #make #master #our

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. ↗

— William Feather

#about #another #astute #both #buys

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

— Andrew Carnegie

#basket #become #eggs #put #rich

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. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#back #banks #completely #corporations #exclusively

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bridget #bridget jones #caribbean #cruises #earnest

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short. ↗

— Susan Collins

#bill #broken #care #colleague #committee

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. ↗

— Scott Cook

#ago #decisions #fairly #financial #most

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #cases #convey #even #improbable