Quotes About Finance

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

If we want the banks to lend - and we all do - if we want the economy to expand - and we all do - do you really want to start confining the banks in their ability to make profits in order to generate more capital to lend out to the people?

In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of 'janitor's insurance.'

Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.

If banks earn more profits, the employees will benefit.

Eliminate emotion from your investment program.

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone?

The I.M.F. programs cost us $2 billion in outflows against only $1 billion in inflows.

I support a progressive state income tax.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

Film budgets are huge. They can afford to promote each and every song in their album.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

Compound interest is proof of gods existence.

I support the Volcker rule, but there needs to be proper definitions around the Volcker rule so that banks can understand exactly what they can do and what they can't do, and that they can provide the necessary function of liquidity in customer markets.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

I have no proper money to invest!

I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.