• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class famil

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 16 reads

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• In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 81 reads

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• Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 27 reads

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• Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 38 reads

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• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 198 reads

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• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 119 reads

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• It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 133 reads

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• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.5 · 56 votes · 139 reads

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• Markets love volatility.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 61 reads

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• Money is a poor man's credit card.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 5 reads

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• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 140 reads

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.2 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 25 votes · 15 reads

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 145 reads

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• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 69 reads

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• Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 73 reads

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• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 149 reads

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 174 reads

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 67 reads

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• Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 11 reads

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• The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 58 votes · 144 reads

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• The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 181 reads

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• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 1 reads

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.7 · 25 votes · 145 reads

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• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 17 votes · 180 reads

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• The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 159 reads

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• The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 64 reads

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• There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 49 votes · 139 reads

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• There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 34 reads

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• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 57 reads

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 117 reads

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• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 35 reads

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• Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 6 reads

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 46 votes · 97 reads

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