Quotes About Financial

People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

When we are making our independent music, we know our directors and what's happening around as we are paying for it. When it's a movie song, it's not you who is doing everything it's the creative heads and production house.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

Understand that VCs are simply a sophisticated form of financial investors who, in turn, need to satisfy their own investors.

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.

I make my money from a lot of different sources, so I'm not depending on any one thing to really pull through.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

What is very negative is that in every country in Europe, the largest owner of that country's sovereign bonds are that country's banks.

I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

The prospective buyer's financial capacity to purchase. The prospective buyer's need for what is being offered for sale. The prospective buyer's motive in making the purchase.

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.

I will retire on these profits

more suicides come from shame or loss of financial and social status than medical diagnoses.

Another recent event is the almost-instant bankruptcy, in 1998, of a financial investment company (hedge fund) called Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), which used the methods and risk expertise of two "Nobel economists," who were called "geniuses" but were in fact using phony, bell curve–style mathematics while managing to convince themselves that it was great science and thus turning the entire financial establishment into suckers.

it had gotten France and Britain heavily in debt; they incurred at least ten times what they thought their financial costs would be

I believe that risk aversion does not exist: what we observe is, simply, a residual of ergodicity. People are, simply, trying to avoid financial suicide and take a certain attitude to tail risks.