Quotes About Financial

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."

Where wealth is health, bankruptcy is death.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The opulence at the head office is often inversely related to the financial substance of the firm. Charlie Munger, paraphrasing Parkinson

Mom and apple pie are potent symbols, venerated in our national psyche but neglected in national policy, as reflected, for example, in our meager family leave policies in comparison with other developed countries. If we were really serious about mothering, we would provide more financial and in-home help as well as education for mothers. As it currently stands, mothers are held up on a pedestal with little support beneath them.

Not at Lehman Brothers, which collapsed in 2008, and not on Wall Street; Greece was where the fire broke out. One heard the word contamination again and again, but this time it was no imperial cultural contamination, no creeping process of civilization. This time the crisis was a contagion: debts and obligations that would never be repaid, a gradual deterioration of the financial immune system.

Deregulation not only opened the way the crash of 2008.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive.

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

The reason is that a man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

La nostra società, sempre più grande e bella, a questo punto è come un ipocondriaco, talmente ossessionato dalla sua salute finanziaria da aver perso la capacità di rimanere sano. Il mondo è così incessantemente avido di vasche da bagno che ha perduto l'equilibrio necessario per costruirle e persino per chiudere i rubinetti.

When women saw her photo and heard her life story, they clamored to take her course and sit for her treatments. The twin promises of enhanced beauty and financial gain—not to mention Madam Walker's own phenomenal personal example—served as a magnet to women who had always believed they would never be more than maids and laundresses.

tests. Those tests can lead to drugs or surgeries, even for patients with no symptoms. Men have their prostates removed. Women are given chemotherapy for breast cancer. The temptation to do something is overwhelming. The financial incentives don't hurt either.

Of course, the problem had a solution. Dear hubby could find a job that paid decently.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

Washington is too expensive.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.