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Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.
Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.
Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.
If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.
It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.
The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
There's no understandable reason why the financial services industry has not developed a more comprehensive sharing of the value chain.
A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.
Launching and seeding awareness of a new tagline is a major financial undertaking. You'd have to be very sure that you needed to do that.
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.
Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.
We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.
Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.
The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.
Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability for you and your family.
For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.
A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.
The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.
You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically.
Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.