Finance

(111 votes)   When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Mae West
1892-1980, American Actress

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(79 votes)   It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

John C. Burton
American Writer

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(74 votes)   We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(72 votes)   The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(70 votes)   You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without diluting the stock.

Paul Cook
Business Executive, CEO of Raychem Corp.

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(67 votes)   What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.

John Bentley
British Director of Wordnet PLC

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(65 votes)   The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson
1909-1993, British Historian, Political Scientist

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(64 votes)   Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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(64 votes)   The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the ''Monied Interest;'' I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself ''the friend of government.''

William Pitt The Elder Chatham
1708 -1778, British Statesman

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(63 votes)   I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property.

Godfrey Bradman
British Property Executive

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(63 votes)   The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned world.

Edwin T. Freedley
1827-1904, British Business Writer

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(63 votes)   Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

Paula Nelson
1945-, American Business Executive

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(61 votes)   Of course I'm doing something about my overdraft: I'm seeing my accountant.

Barry Fantoni
British Cartoonist, Writer and Broadcaster

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(61 votes)   The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.

Jonathan Glancey
British Journalist

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