It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. Votes: 2
I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money. Votes: 2
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. Votes: 2
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. Votes: 2
If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that. Votes: 2
No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. Votes: 2
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done. Votes: 2
If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors. Votes: 2
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. Votes: 2
When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely. Votes: 2
Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. Votes: 2
African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Now's the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about saving that money. And how their money can add up in the future. I think the more you prepare your children for the future, the better off they'll be. Votes: 2
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more. Votes: 2
One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not. Votes: 2
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. Votes: 2
I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management. Votes: 2
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully. Votes: 0
I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things. Votes: 0
The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission. Votes: 0
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. Votes: 0
For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever. Votes: 0
Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations, Votes: 0
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. Votes: 0
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that. Votes: 0
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles. Votes: 0
There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates. Votes: 0
A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money. Votes: 0
I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around. Votes: 0
Inflation is taxation without legislation. Votes: 4 Milton Friedman
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Votes: 5 Benjamin Franklin