The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face – its for him to retire with a smile on his face. – Mark Cuban
I dont think about financial success as the measurement of my success. – Christie Hefner
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, thats not equity, its just creating a society where you cant ask anything of people. – Jacques Delors
Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. – Regis Philbin
Weve 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
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. Thats not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. Thats barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. – Thomas Carper
To beat the market youll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. – Merton Miller
I wasnt a financial pro, and I paid the price. – Ruth Handler
Ive always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. – Barbara Feldon
If it isnt the sheriff, its the finance company Ive got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. – John Barrymore
Im looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. – David Bowie
At this point, I dont get hired a lot because people dont think I could finance a movie. – Martha Plimpton
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, theres about 50 people with producer credits, so whats 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
What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. – Robert Graves
The FHAs success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nations mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it. – Mark Zandi
The studios dont finance anymore, they get outside funds. – Robert Rodriguez
Lets not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns. – Fred Thompson
I personally believe that theres going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think theres going to be a good case for that. – Timothy Geithner
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 dont make enough money. – Andrew Motion
Survivor wouldnt have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on Survivor was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. – Mark Burnett
