The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.
Manipulating is just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Everyone is manipulating.
I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.
When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.
Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.
Money is easy to hide.
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.