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" The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in. " - Fred Wilson

" People can’t live on $7.50 an hour. " - Kenneth Langone

" Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It’s a notional loss. What we can monitor is the credit quality of the underlying papers. Are the companies paying interest on time? Is there any deterioration in the credit quality of these companies? " - Chanda Kochhar

" Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. " - Mark Zandi

" Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets. " - Kenneth Lay

" Borrowing isn’t inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing. " - Stephen Moore

" Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency. " - Jean Chatzky

" An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. " - William Petty

" It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money. " - Juliana Hatfield

" The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you’ve built it or before you’ve finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more. " - Fred Wilson