Quotes About Finance

And he had inherited the chief American bank in London.

there will never be another bank as powerful, mysterious, or opulent as the old House of Morgan.

Having helped Eliza keep the books, he enjoyed a head start.

its dividend was halved.

It also reflected a profound political logic. Hamilton knew that bondholders would feel a stake in preserving any government that owed them money. If the federal government, not the states, was owed the money, creditors would shift their main allegiance to the central government.

He stressed the displeasure of European investors with American railroads

Where Junius had accommodated the Rothschilds, Pierpont defied them, secretly demanding a higher commission on the issue

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest subsidies? Small government would kill them dead.

You'd have the IRS so far up your ass you'd see them when you brush your teeth.

the mean government pension.

All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.

I kept depositing money in countries that seemed safest from war—Sweden, Holland, Canada. Those were the very countries where my funds were either confiscated or frozen.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

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

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.