Quotes About Financial

But the situation at the GSEs was getting more dire by the day. "The

But I thought a slowdown or modest reversal of house price appreciation was more likely than a sharp decline.

we had limited room on our balance sheet to buy more securities

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing, as Poor Richard says; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.

You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little more entertainment now and then can be no great matter but remember what Poor Richard says "Many a little makes a mickle; beware of little expense for a small leak will sink a great ship.

Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.

know what I must do, Father,' he said, still looking into his father's eyes. 'I must represent Mother's ideas, I should promote her dream.' His father smiled. 'You got it, young man! You do that and that will mean that she lives. Now,' he said, standing up, 'I'm told that I will get some financial help next week. My money is running out but I have enough to get some food for the time being. So let's go shopping.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Be that as it may, for our present purposes, a bottom line emerges: Stock prices are not independent. Today's action can, at least slightly, affect tomorrow's action. The standard model is, again, wrong.

But his observations of two forms of wildness remain: abrupt change, and almost-trends. These are the two basic facts of a financial market, the facts that any model must accommodate.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

China will continue to adopt multiple measures to advance the reform and opening up of its financial sector so that its financial market can better adapt to financial modernization and globalization.

As far as discom reforms are concerned, they have to be a combination of two parts. One is the existing balance sheet and, therefore, taking care of that. The second important is the reduction in losses going forward.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.

China has incredible financial power and sometimes makes offers that players can't refuse.

In the late 1990s, Mugabe's misguided policies sent our economy and agricultural productivity, our country's lifeblood, plummeting into the abyss. To make up for the financial shortfall, his regime attempted to print its way out of the mess, immediately resulting in inconceivable hyperinflation, topping out at 231 million percent.

Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities faced by the rest of the country, the facts of austerity are becoming harder to ignore.

We need to cut the pensions and annuities of parliamentarians, regional councilors, and employees of constitutional bodies.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.