Partnerre Finance Quotes

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't. ~ Clayton Christensen

Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced she's wearing black knickers - she looks like a black knickers kind of gal to me - and I'm so sure that's what she's wearing, so positive of that sartorial fact, I want to bet a million dollars on it. The trouble is, if I'm wrong, I'm wiped out. So I also bet she's wearing knickers that aren't black, but are any one of a whole basket of colours - let's say I put nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars on that possibility: that's the rest of the market; that's the hedge. This is a crude example, okay, in every sense, but hear me out. Now if I'm right, I make fifty K, but even if I'm wrong I'm going to lose fifty K, because I'm hedged. And because ninety-five per cent of my million dollars is not in use - I'm never going to be called on to show it: the only risk is in the spread - I can make similar bets with other people. Or I can bet it on something else entirely. And the beauty of it is I don't have to be right all the time - if I can just get the colour of her underwear right fifty-five per cent of the time I'm going to wind up very rich... ~ Robert Harris

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. ~ David Ricardo

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. ~ Rodrigo Rato

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. ~ Ken Robinson

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management. ~ William Redington Hewlett

You can become great through the power of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Frankfurt's big problem is that London is a much more attractive and interesting place to live, especially for the demographic who work in finance: as a former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, put it, Young men want to go out on the pull and do a lot of cocaine, and they can't really do that easily in Frankfurt. ~ John Lanchester

Use your time to gain knowledge ~ Sunday Adelaja

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. ~ John D. Rockefeller

If you don't laugh reading this book I'll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector? ~ Nicole Fende

Time should be reproduced and multiplied ~ Sunday Adelaja

The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life ~ Sunday Adelaja

Our long-postponed day of financial reckoning appears finally to be at hand, and it may well turn out to be something we should not wish away. When ordinary people are brought to understand that the state is unable to ensure their material well-being, children will again be perceived as long term assets: necessary replacements for the Social Security swindle and state-seized or inflation eroded private pension funds rather than obstacles to greater consumption. Amid the collapse of political finance, we may be able to regain a sense of the timeless purpose of labor and wealth. Our children may learn to find the satisfaction in the simple daily fact of family survival that we were unable to find in all our economic overreaching. ~ F. Roger Devlin

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. ~ Sally Stanford

Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as "clients," is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly place. Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders. ~ Michael Lewis

Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one ~ Sunday Adelaja

One peek inside his top drawer had been enough for Sophie. Swimming goggles, nail clippers, a Ferragamo tie wound into a tight coil, and packets of Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard. None of that compared to Ira Blumenstein's gold tooth, Kenneth Yang's Darth Vader lollipop, or Rich Angstrom's Magic 8 Ball. ~ Laura Hemphill

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work. ~ Robert J. Eaton

Life is a product of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and government have a symbiotic relationship that is often mediated by war. Central banking gives government a way to tap the productive power of the private sector and borrow from the future without the need to rely overmuch on unpopular tax increases. Government gives central banking the extreme profits that derive from immense borrowing to finance wars and other government projects. ~ Mark David Ledbetter

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us. ~ Dave Ramsey

Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life ~ Sunday Adelaja

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. ~ Martin Feldstein

Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget. ~ Leslie Tayne

Spreading the Word of Christ and the Kingdom should be our goal as believers ~ Sunday Adelaja

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power. ~ Robert Haugen

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement. ~ Matt Taibbi

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating. ~ Bernie Sanders

You can multiply your life through work, not jobs ~ Sunday Adelaja

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. ~ Robert Graves

You don't have to be a miser, just be wiser with your money. ~ Dorethia Conner Kelly

I was convinced that I was totally incompetent in predicting market prices - but that others were generally incompetent also but did not know it, or did not know they were taking massive risks. Most traders were just "picking pennies in front of a steamroller," exposing themselves to the high-impact rare event yet sleeping like babies, unaware of it. ~ Nassem Nicholas Taleb

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios ... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. ~ George Soros

A man is not allowed to practise medicine unless he knows something of the human body, but a financier is allowed to operate freely without any knowledge at all of the multifarious effects of his activities, with the sole exception of the effect upon his bank account. ~ Bertrand Russell

Finding Money Maturity means resolving your inner conflicts around money. It really comes down to discovering a sense of ease around money. ~ George Kinder

A job shouldn't be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance ~ Sunday Adelaja

Don't be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries ~ Sunday Adelaja

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait. ~ Sophie Kinsella

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. ~ William J. Clinton

For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me. ~ Anthony Gregory