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It sounds
extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make
fascinating reading.
-- Mary Archer
British Scientist and
Business Executive
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
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
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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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
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,
Lord Chatham
1708 -1778, British Statesman
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.
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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