Quotes About Finance

In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns.

The revenue derived from labour is called wages; that derived from stock, by the person who manages or employs it, is called profit; that derived from it by the person who does not employ it himself, but lends it to another, is called the interest or the use of money.

All money is a matter of belief.

It follows that there are two ways to increase your profitability: Either reduce your costs or increase your revenues. In the old economy, reducing your costs worked best. In the new economy, increasing your revenue works much, much better.

Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.

DiPascali, a small terrier-like man with the unpolished speech of his native Queens, came through for Madoff. Using self-taught computer skills and the historical stock and options prices available to any brokerage firm, he created a convincing paper trail covering several years of complex trading activity that almost certainly had never occurred.

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet,

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Las asesorías contables son como champiñones: crecen en la oscuridad y se nutren de basura», dice Tom Mornini

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.