Quotes About Financial

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

As I said earlier, life happens, and you will inevitably run into a situation that you simply could not plan for at some point in your life. Although you may not be able to plan for the event itself, the best that you can do is ensure that you are financially prepared to handle it and reduce or eliminate any additional stress from an already stressful situation.

Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

For me, if I wasn't going to get a full scholarship to go to school, I was going to go to the Army or Navy so I could avoid debt.

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grass roots and financial resources.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

By shredding the remnants of political democracy, these financial institutions lay the basis for carrying the lethal process forward—as long as their victims are willing to suffer in silence.

Any thought of soft power has been pretty much abandoned, but US reserves of hard power are enormous. No other country can impose harsh sanctions at will and compel third parties to honor them at cost of expulsion from the international financial system; and, of course, no one else has hundreds of military bases around the world or anything like Washington's advanced military power and ability to resort to force at will and with impunity.

deficit reduction is the demand of the financial institutions and the superrich, and in a rapidly declining democracy, that's what counts.