The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career.
My dad’s a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother’s in finance – I’m the runt of the litter.
Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice.
Iran is an unapologetic sponsor of global terrorism, and cutting off Iran’s ability to finance those activities is necessary.
Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That’s where they – all these problems come from.
I have millions of dollars, and I don’t know finance. I’ve had some bad things happen in my career. I’ve got to educate myself. I sit down with my finance guy once a month and go over everything, line by line.
I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
When you’re in finance, you see the company deeply – where it’s running well and where there’s issues you’ve got to solve.
Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there’s an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.
My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.
Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
If it isn’t the sheriff, it’s the finance company; I’ve got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world.
When you’re building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component – finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
In the long term, Germany didn’t need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life – with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
If you’re going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?
If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
