Quotes About Financial

Poverty with freedom from debt is great wealth. If

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

Cruelty links all three primitives [pleasure, pain, and desire]: Spinoza defines it as the desire to inflict pain on someone we love or pity. Financial speaking, cruelty is analogous to a convertible bond whose debt and equity depend on three economic underliers: the stock price, the level of interest rates, and the credit worthiness of the company's debt.

Are you blessed financially? If yes, then listen up. God blessed you so that you can bless someone else/others maximally. Besides that, if you are not yet blessed financially you still have something with which you can bless someone else/others like your God-given words of encouragement/wisdom/insights/inspirations/motivations and stuffs like that.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250 000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Open an IRA to shelter some of your income. This is a fine way to build a nest egg for the future.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, "The reason people get stuck is almost always an emotional reason…and they can get stuck for years…but the consequences are financial." And similarly, Kiplinger's reported, "Financial planners are increasingly finding themselves playing the role of psychologist as well as financial counselor.

A declaration of intention is only the first strategy of financial success, but it is the most crucial one of all.

The failure to endow Treasury and the Fed with the authority to deal with the insolvency of a nonbank financial institution was the single most important policy failure of the crisis.

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

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success - yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.