Quotes About Finance

YOUR HOUSE IS NOT AN ASSET The 2008 housing market crash was a clear message that your personal residence is not an asset. Not only does it not put money in your pocket, but we cannot count on the fact that it will go up in value. Many houses in 2017 are still worth less than they were in 2007.

most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

Once you got rich you'd have to spend all your time staying rich, and that's hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I'll be doin' all right.

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

What if some man wanted to tell me how many feet from a dwelling a cesspool needed to be? What if he wanted to talk about the pros and cons of raising the mortgage rate? What if he wanted to talk about his childhood? Or worse, mine!

maintenance budgets are among the very first things to go.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Troisième maxime. - Tout impôt doit être perçu à l'époque et selon le mode que l'on peut présumer les moins gênants pour le contribuable.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Quatrième maxime. - Tout impôt doit être conçu de manière à ce qu'il fasse sortir des mains du peuple le moins d'argent possible au-delà de ce qui entre dans le Trésor de l'Etat, et en même temps à ce qu'il tienne le moins longtemps possible cet argent hors des mains du peuple avant d'entrer dans ce Trésor.

The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When