Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. ”

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ”

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash. ”

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them. ”

Consciousness is the glory of creation. ”

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms. ”

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ”

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. ”

A large and growing body of academic research suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a strict index approach. Some of that research has been recognized with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013. ”

Low-volatility funds, which tend to smooth out performance, have been especially popular since the financial crisis. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Fund is the oldest, begun in 2011. ”