Finance Quotes

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

All money is a matter of belief.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I made my money by selling too soon.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

My adversary is the world of finance.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.