Quotes About Finance

The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.

I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

It may seem premature, but you need to be thinking of your exit from the moment you accept capital, because at that moment, you've made an explicit agreement with an investor that he or she will eventually be able to gain liquidity.

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

I think, more than anything, Bitcoin presents an opportunity.

People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.

Presidential scandals have traditionally and historically no effect on the market.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

Basically if you're trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It's just meetings with people who don't really have any money but pretend they do.

I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.