#finance

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#coming #dividends #do you know #gives #know

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. ↗

— Will Rogers

#buy #gamble #go #goes #good

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly. ↗

— James Chanos

#accounted #any #derivatives #done #evil

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#day #decisions #finance #group #had

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. ↗

— Steve Israel

#finance #functions #generation #help #into

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#career #career opportunities #finance #going #i

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#any #avoidance #carries #intellectual #only

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. ↗

— Tim Roth

#attached #by the time #close #come #credits

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#booming #bubble #burst #depression #different

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#around #benefits #create #economies #enhance