Quotes About Financial

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

India is among the leaders in thinking about how technology can solve some of the problems about financial inclusion. But if you think that financial inclusion as a problem has a solution rooted in technology, it's obviously not the only thing.

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance.

The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity." -- Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Work is how you settle your financial and emotional debts—so that your travels are not an escape from your real life but a discovery of your real life.

Above all race questions, which are for the most part a mask behind which pride crouches and the interests of the financial or aristocratic classes dissemble, there is a law of humanity, eternal and universal, of which we are all the servants and guardians; it is that of the right of a people to rule themselves. And he who violates shall be the enemy of all.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Thomas Wazhashk: I am not sure what study the information about our advancement, financially speaking, was based on. But I will tell you it was faulty. Most of our people live on dirt floors, no electricity, no plumbing. I haul my own water like most Indians in this room. I consider myself advanced only because I read and write. Should I not be an Indian person because I read and write?

Dawn was sad, calm, and brimming with debt.

Sophisticated investors subscribed to newsletters such as Fred Hickey's Hi-Tech Strategy letter, Richard Russell's Dow Theory Letter, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, Marc Faber's Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, or welling@weeden, a newsletter that began circulating in 1999, featuring interviews with some of the best minds in the financial community.

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.