Quotes about Finance

“If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.”

“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.”

“Rupee fluctuation is not so significant compared with the other currencies. Fluctuations in currencies has been fairly steady. As the finance minister often says, fluctuation is the new normal.”

“We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.”

“I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.”

“I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.”

“Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?”

“One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.”

“Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.”

“If you focus too much on business or finance, then sometimes you don't move ahead as much as you could.”

“Hindi film industry's fortunes are directly connected to that of the world finance markets.”

“America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth.”

“Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.”

“In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.”

“I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.”

“People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.”

“Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.”

“The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.”

“The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career.”

“I am all for trying to teach household finance in schools, starting as early as possible. And when it comes to high school, I think learning about compound interest is at least as important as trigonometry or memorizing the names of all 50 state capitals.”

“I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.”