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Quotes About Finance

When the dollar goes down relative to other currencies, the price of wheat, corn, rice and oil all go up in dollar terms.
~ Steve Hanke
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
~ Maria Cantwell
The economy is my wheel house.
~ Mitt Romney
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
~ John Ortberg
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
~ Milton Friedman
Whenever global economy is reasonably doing well, the investment flows.
~ Tulsi Tanti
I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
~ Linda Evans
Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.
~ Grover Norquist
Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
~ Billy Graham
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
~ Sam Walton
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
~ Joe Biden
The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
~ Joe Mays
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
~ H. L. Mencken
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
~ Will Durant
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
~ Clive Granger
The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.
~ Maria Bartiromo
So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.
~ Dudley North
Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it'd really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea, a lot of it from China - from Chinese banks - whereas, if we sanction the Chinese banks, there could be friction with China. But this is something we're going to have to face.
~ Richard Lugar
The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
~ Naveen Jain
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
~ Warren Buffett
While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.
~ Dave Ramsey
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
~ Pliny the Elder