“The brokerage and mutual fund business form a financial colossus that bestrides modern financial, and increasingly, social and political life.”

— William J. Bernstein

Introduction, p. xii.
The Four Pillars of Investing (2002)

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Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) Political scientist

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“Financial Accounting is the core of any successful business.”

Ruben Vergara Meersohn (1991) Entrepreneur

Financial Accounting is the core of a successful business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwxU9uRbp4 at 1:13 min, published 12 September 2017.

“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”

C. Wright Mills book The Power Elite

Source: The Power Elite (1956), P. 47.

“In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.”

Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887–1975) German businessman

Quoted in "Nazis in the News" - Mar 5, 1933

“Businesses and financial sponsors associated with supporters of Taiwan independence will be penalized according to law.”

Zhu Fenglian (1977)

Source: "China Targets Corporate Backers of Taiwan’s Ruling Party" in Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-22/china-sets-sights-on-corporate-backers-of-taiwan-s-independence (22 November 2021)