Quotes About Financial

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

That's why you call it a budget. You set it and you don't budge.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

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

I used to care what people think about me until I tried paying my bills with their thoughts.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

Rather, it is that Europe's economic recovery created new centers of financial power, new situations for potential friction, and new opportunities for fiscal resentment.

you asked me to distill trading down to its simplest form, I would say that it is a pattern recognition numbers game.

Live like a student while you are in school, so you don't have to live like a student after you graduate.

The growth in education debt outstanding is like cooking a lobster, The increase in total student debt occurs slowly but steadily, so by the time you notice that the water is boiling, you're already cooked." http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/08/09/student-loan-debt-surpasses-credit-cards/

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

The national debt—that is, the unfunded liabilities and fiscal operating debt—amounts to tens of trillions of dollars. The Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and numerous other public and private institutions have sounded warning alarms about the oncoming crash. But no serious or effective steps have been taken to address this simmering financial and economic implosion.

In fact, so bad is the federal government's management of its massive resources that the General Accountability Office (GAO) found the accuracy of most of its financial reporting suspect.

If you retired in 1960, you could expect to get back seven times more in benefits than you paid in Social Security taxes, and more if you were a low-income worker, as long as you made it to age 78 for men and 81 for women. As recently as 1985, workers at every income level could retire and expect to get more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn't do quite as well as their parents and grandparents. Not anymore.

When the central bank lowers interest rates below what they would have reached on the market, it sets in motion a series of responses by investors and consumers that will prove to be incompatible.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

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.