Financial Shift Quotes

You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have the euro. So they, in a revolutionary way, have gone from bad money to good money comparatively. But what about the rest of the world?

A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

It's funny how money change a situation.

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

For a generation accustomed to thinking of the United States as the world's leading industrial power, something was lost when the U.S, became the world's largest debtor.

I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!

The powershift began already several years ago, under the Bush administration, when the dollar became very volatile and started declining. That is when China shifted from having almost 100 percent of its reserves in dollars to 75 percent. Some countries went completely out of the dollar. The dollar, for all intents and purposes, lost its special reserve status and people starting talking about a portfolio, or basket, approach as a store of wealth instead of the dollar.