Financial Background Quotes

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

I don't come from family money, and neither does my husband.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

I don't come from money.

I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

We didn't grow up superwealthy.

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

I like the direct contact. I want a lot of people that only know me through the mass media to learn more about what I'm doing, and to know that I'm an independent filmmaker and I'm not part of the Hollywood system. I'm coming from where they started. I'm not coming from a family with a lot of money.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

I heard governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.