Quotes About Financial

Los resultados pueden ser devastadores. Recientemente, dos estudiantes universitarios en Oklahoma se dieron por vencidos por sus tarjetas de crédito y se suicidaron, dejando las cuentas en la cama junto a ellos.

El Instituto Estadounidense de Bancarrotas revela que 19% de las personas que se declararon en bancarrota el año pasado eran estudiantes universitarios.

There is no such thing as good debt. The credit card is the cigarette of the financial world. The borrower is always a slave to the lender.

No matter how blessed or distressed you are financially, your first priority every month is to cover what I call the Four Walls. Think of it as the four walls that hold your house together. They are food, shelter, clothing, and transportation. If you have food in your belly, a roof over your head, clothes on your back, and a way to get to work tomorrow, you'll live to fight another day.

Obtener una tarjeta de crédito para su adolescente es un excelente modo de enseñarle a ser financieramente irresponsable. Por eso los adolescentes son ahora el blanco número uno de las compañías de tarjetas de crédito.

If you're not intentional about growing your kids' characters and ability to handle money, you can work your whole life to build wealth only to have it end up ruining them.

Retirement in America has come to mean "save enough money so I can quit the job I hate.

Si el consumidor estuviera libre de deudas y viviera dentro de los límites de sus recursos, su confianza estaría bien fundada.)

You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

typical millionaire lives in a middle-class home, drives a two-year-old or older paid-for car, and buys blue jeans at Wal-Mart.

P&G is known on Wall Street as a firm which takes a long-term view of its brand profitability.

wealth is not found in banks, but in the heart. Oh, sure, having financial wealth can make life better in some ways, but the burdens that come with it—the weight of responsibility, the necessity of constant effort to maintain that wealth—they drain the joy from life. As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it, and

Money is not an end in itself. It is merely a tool to help us achieve some particular goal. If the way we handle our money conflicts with our personal values, we are not going to wind up living happy and fulfilled lives.

A latte a day keeps retirement away

Social security was never intended to be a retirement plan. At most, it was designed to provide an income supplement.

women are less likely to have a steady income stream over the course of their lifetimes. In some cases, that's due to discrimination, but it's also due to the fact that responsibilities such as child rearing and caring for elderly parents cause women to move in and out of the workforce a lot more than men do. In all, over their working lifetimes, women spend a total of 11½ years off the job on average, versus only 16 months for men.

The problem isn't our income; it's what we do with our money once we get it... how much you earn has almost no bearing on whether or not you can and will build wealth.

If you have $10,000 sitting in a savings or checking account earning only 1.0 percent annually when it could be earning 4.5 percent, you are cheating yourself out of $450 a year in interest. The way I see it, that's a plane ticket to Hawaii or a fancy dream night out on the town or more money in your retirement account! In other words, that so-called free checking account at the bank really isn't. Quite the contrary, it's costing you a fortune.

Over the years Sumner amended his trust more than forty times to add and remove numerous beneficiaries, many of them women he dated. Dauman, who as a cotrustee of Sumner's trust was aware of many of the gifts, acknowledged that "several" women received over $20 million each, "a lot" of women received over $10 million, and "many, many" women received over $1 million.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

The nation-state will devolve like an unwieldy conglomerate, but probably not before it is forced to do so by financial crises.