Top 1200 Financial Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

See, Independence means freedom, for me, more specifically, freedom of speech which we seem to have lost.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Whether it appears so or not, you have total freedom right now. What would happen if you fully exercised that freedom this very minute?

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequently keeps me on the optimistic side of life.

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.' I enjoyed writing that sentence more than any sentence I ever wrote.

We have full disclosure in transparency of our audited, our financial audits. It's on our Web site. It is, I think 16 or 20- something pages, which most public companies or private companies and most ministries don't disclose. So we have always operated with financial integrity and full transparency.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that.

So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.