Quotes About Financial

By the end of 2007, UK household debt had reached 177% of disposable income, mortgage debt 132%. Martin Wolf wrote in the Financial Times in September 2008

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.

Y él debía seiscientos pesos con siete centavos!

America is one of the last places left on earth where every citizen, until the day he or she dies, is exposed to the risk of personal bankruptcy because of illness or disease. It does not matter how industrious we are, how carefully we save and invest, or how moral we are in our personal and family life. We are all just one long hospital stay away from losing everything.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg

He made a practice of never carrying less than $1,000, and he kept it in his pocket.

Perhaps never in financial history has anybody else amassed so much power so reluctantly.

Our opponents have sometimes tried to make it appear that we are attacking a race when we denounced the financial policy of the Rothschilds.

But we are not, we are as much opposed to the financial policy of J. Pierpont Morgan as we are to the financial policy of the Rothschilds."14

With the best intentions, John fed Frank's gambling addiction, even though Frank often did not realize the source of the loans.

He and William agreed to cancel their mortgage on Frank's Kansas ranch.

As the panic deepened, Rockefeller refused to release collateral despite Corrigan's pleas that he could use his lake vessels to raise additional money.

and Junius desperately bought them to prop up the price, nearly wiping himself out.

National City Bank had the deepest gold reserves and cash resources of any bank during the panic.

The 1907 panic would be the last time that bankers loomed so much larger than regulators in a crisis.

It means disaster to the country, financial depression, and chaos.

Do you think it is sad for people to struggle their entire working life just to get by, only to retire into guaranteed poverty? I know I do. And the reason I feel this way is because we all have so much potential to do better.

He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.