Adena Friedman Quotes

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

You can't grow unless your banking system is expanding and you are extending credit.

The economy is my wheel house.

My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.

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

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Whoever owns the means of credit controls the industrial life of the nation.

… there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money

I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving.

We should improve economic guidance and management as demanded by the developing reality.

The financial sector is vital to the economy. A well-functioning financial sector promotes job creation, innovation, and inclusive economic growth.

As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

In the end, a commitment to the economic health of the country will go a long way in showing voters who is focused on the real stuff.

The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.