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Finance, like time, devours its own children.


Honore de Balzac


#devours #finance #like #own #time

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

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.


Bo Bennett


#economic #economic growth #follow #growth #prosperity

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.


Bruce Beresford


#bureau #could #enlightened #films #finance

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


Alistair Darling


#finance #goal #make #master #our

Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under.


Amy Summers


#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #finance #funny

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.


Ian Smillie


#economics #ian-smillie #microfinance #poor #poverty

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.


Muhammad Yunus


#microfinance #poverty #social-business #society #business

Poverty is unnecessary.


Muhammad Yunus


#poverty #unnecessary

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.


John Barrymore


#cleaner #company #finance #got #i






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