Top 1200 Financial Regulation Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and profits. Companies whose financial statements are loaded with footnotes: companies that short-sellers often attack but rarely dent.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

I find myself more interested in producing. Not because I'm interested in the financial side of it, but just getting together the right elements to make a film, that side of production. I would not be good on the financial side. It would be a disaster from the beginning.

I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.

Even if a financial institution rejects an initial application by an individual using a synthetic identity, credit bureaus create a record from the transaction based on the fraudulent credentials. Consequently, the record can be used repeatedly by a fraudster to establish a fake identity used to commit financial and other types of fraud.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.

I have to say that every white-collar criminal defense lawyer knows when the chief financial officer turns state's evidence, everyone in the executive suite is in a lot of trouble because the chief financial officer knows exactly where the money is coming and going.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.

Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It's going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world.

That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.

The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and stabilizing the economy and the financial sector during the crisis. But then they tried to do too much with quantitative easing that went on forever, just dramatically exploding their balance sheets.

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

To restore confidence in our markets and our financial institutions so they can fuel continued growth and prosperity, we must address the underlying problem. The federal government must implement a program to remove these illiquid assets that are weighing down our financial institutions and threatening our economy.

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

Investing in renter's insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security - not the cause of you losing financial security.

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

I think what is effective regulation is one that follows the law and one that will be held up in court.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.

Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

People need the financial sector to be safe; people also need the financial sector to go through a massive phase of innovation. That means delivering on the positive rhetoric, like around settlement accounts, not allowing Open Banking to be diluted, and leading the way on AML.

We have to be careful that we don't have so much regulation that would prevent all of the people who are benefiting from Airbnb to benefit.