Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
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 don’t make enough money.
The studios don’t finance anymore, they get outside funds.
Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing ‘Bridget Jones’ to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
One of the things that’s great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
I’ve learned there’s a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
Imperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don’t want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
People used to ask me for advice, and I’d say, ‘Please, don’t ask me!’ Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that’s not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.
I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn’t consume much time at all.
You can be this super-successful woman who’s smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn’t always think that was possible.
Everyone says you’ve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
I think I can hold every portfolio – defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I’d like the foreign office.
Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
People can get information – on entertainment, politics, finance – much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
I think there’s a number of pillars to success. One is you’ve got to have a great idea. The other is you’ve got to have a constituency, you’ve got to have finance, and you’ve got to be able to raise awareness.
If you’re running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it’s an advertising company or whether you’re running a hospital.
I probably don’t make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I’m one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.
Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.
