Muhammad Yunus
Social Entrepreneur
"Poverty is unnecessary."
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Finance
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Alfred Marshall
Economist
"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists."
Bernard Baruch
Financier, Politician
"I made my money by selling too soon."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
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"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."
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"Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait."
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"Finance is a slave's word."
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"I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
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"A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time."
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."
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"In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar."
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"In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable."
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"In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit."
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"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury."
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"Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside."
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"They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance."
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"A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things up for the future when she said, "What do you want to do when you retire?" I said, "I always wanted to do a food show.""
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"It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance."
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"We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too."
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"I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world."
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"I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities."
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"One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement."
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"In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man."
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"Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered."
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