Quotes of Financier - somelinesforyou

“ What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have — leisure and a quiet mind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Thanks to the support of investors and corporations over the last five years, CDP has generated the leading database of investment - relevant information regarding climate change. We are proud to be able to help investors and corporations make informed decisions on the subject. ”

- James Cameron

“ There are many types of investors,... There are as many different types of investors as there are investments. Many of these investors are very long-term oriented, many are very short-term oriented and they vary along other dimensions, too. ”

- Jeff Bezos

“ If I had to make a choice on that at this point in my life, I've been a terrible investor. And I haven't been. ”

- Al Michaels

“ A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. ”

- Arthur Wing Pinero

“ We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor. ”

- John Simon

“ Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker. ”

- Gerry Spence

“ He says he's a compassionate conservative. I say he's a crony capitalist. ”

- Jim Hightower

“ You say: "If you sign an NDA, I'll tell you my idea." Investor thinks: "You are clueless. How can you not know that venture capitalists don't sign NDAs?". ”

- Guy Kawasaki

“ You say: "I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur." Investor thinks: "I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?". ”

- Guy Kawasaki

“ Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. ”

- Octavio Paz

“ I think what you're going to see going forward is that public investors and also venture capitalists and the whole chain of investors are going to be much more discriminating in their investments. ”

- Jeff Bezos

“ When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral. ”

- Walt Disney

“ When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace. ”

- Ludwig Mises

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. ”

- William Shakespeare
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