Quotes About Finance

the brass and the bean counters look at the bottom line.

The point of the story is that even a highly disciplined investor can't see a market bottom any more easily than he can see the top.

Les prétendues chambres à gaz hitlériennes et le prétendu génocide des Juifs forment un seul et même mensonge historique qui a permis une gigantesque escroquerie politico-financière, dont les principaux bénéficiaires sont l'État d'Israël et le sionisme international, et dont les principales victimes sont le peuple allemand — mais non pas ses dirigeants et le peuple palestinien tout entier.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts?

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds;

One dollar at compound interest, at twenty-four per cent., for one hundred years, would produce a sum equal to our national debt. Interest eats night and day, and the more it eats the hungrier it grows. The farmer in debt, lying awake at night, can, if he listens, hear it gnaw. If he owes nothing, he can hear his corn grow. Get out of debt as soon as you possibly can. You have supported idle avarice and lazy economy long enough.

Strike had recently helped several wealthy young women rid themselves of City husbands who had become much less attractive to them since the financial crash.

My business is not a stepping stone to 'better' things, but a lifestyle choice and a way of work uniquely crafted to fit and finance the way I live. As a result, work is not a Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 endeavour. Instead, my weekdays are a joyous mix of family, friends and office time. Ditto my weekends, actually.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Before Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren went into politics, she and her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, coauthored a book in which they asked why most one-earner couples could live comfortably within their budgets in the 1950s, yet the two-earner couples that had become the norm by the 1990s often struggled to make ends meet.9 Their answer was that the second paycheck went largely to fuel a bidding war for houses in better school districts.

In one large sample of women, for instance, the annual probability of divorce among those whose weddings cost more than $20,000 was more than three times that of those whose weddings cost between $5,000 and $10,000.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income

Most public companies spend less than 2 percent of their annual budgets on R&D.

If the stock market continues to advance, we know that inequality will increase, for capital gains on equities accrue disproportionately to the top income brackets.

Robert J. Shiller

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

It speaks volumes about where the real power in America lies that Democrats found it easier to move to the left on an array of identity issues than to move left on pocketbook issues and challenge the dominance of finance.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.