Quotes About Financial

The Commodore taught the financial world how to corner stocks, something illegal these days. But back then it was quite a feat.

Debt is a dream killer.

For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we're not required to set aside money for every burger we consume (to cover the real financial cost of the burger), the long-term costs of carrying extra weight remain invisible.

One for the wheelchair, and one for the tank; one for insurance, and one for the bank; one lived in the TV, bitching and whining; one slept in the hall light, constantly shining.

the name for a certain kind of fiscal decapitation is called taking a haircut, which clarifies just how minor and even trivial are most of the financial limitations on wealth that get considered in the neoliberal hegemony.

Que garantizar la seguridad y la prosperidad de la gente fuera bueno para la economía era una sorpresa muy grata para ellos. ¿Quién iba a pensarlo?

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Loving one another isn't enough to make a relationship last. The real glue that holds a couple (or friends or family) together is the effort both put into helping others who are in need of financial, health, personal or emotional assistance. Today, sustain your connection to a loved one by finding ways you both can help others, with a genuine heart.

Getting my poems published was a great achievement, but it didn't pay the rent. The only time I made any money was when I won a CAPS fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1983. They gathered sixteen poets in a room and handed us each a check for $5,000. The room was filled with happiness so thick you could cut it. Eventually, I started looking around for another way to make a living.

A "prospect" has a need for the product, a possible desire to own that product, and the financial capacity to implement that decision. You "spend" time with suspects; you "invest" time with prospects.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Gemma murmured. Even if she could afford Stella's

According to Christian doctrine as it was taught for millennia, Jesus was crucified because, among other things, he threatened Jews' power and financial well-being.

How can deniers explain that in not one war-crimes trial since the end of World War II has a perpetrator of any nationality denied that these events occurred? They may have said, "I was forced to kill," but not one asserted that the killing did not happen. Finally, why has Germany shouldered the enormous moral and financial responsibility for the crimes committed in the Holocaust, if it did not happen?

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Human capital is of course much more equally distributed than ownership of factories or ships. We own ourselves, even if we are poor in stocks and bonds. Focusing on financial wealth is therefore misleading.

Disciplined investors who rely on low-cost index funds for the long term have done better than most of their peers and the professionals."

To build wealth, an investor should [forget] about the daily financial weather, like market news and headlines, and instead concentrate on growth of wealth over time,

The bride throws money away because she won't need her own money any more, once she's married.