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Quotes About Finance

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
~ Joe Moore
Deregulation policies do not empower a 'natural' tendency for finance to lead a society from poverty to wealth, they simply put short-term profit and the interests of consumers ahead of developmental learning and agricultural and industrial upgrading. There is no case for doing this when a country is poor.
~ Joe Studwell
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost 7.00 in dog money.
~ Joe Weinstein
Although over the short term, Mr. Market may set stock prices based on emotion, over the long term, it is the value of the company that becomes most important to Mr. Market.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Stock prices move around wildly over very short periods of time. This does not mean that the values of the underlying companies have changed very much during that same period.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Although over the short term Mr. Market may price stocks based on emotion, over the long term Mr. Market prices stocks based on their value.
~ Joel Greenblatt
The global securities industry, for example, once overwhelmingly concentrated in the financial districts of London and New York, has gradually shifted an ever larger share of their operations to their respective suburban rings, other smaller cities, and overseas. The headquarters might remain in a midtown high-rise, but more and more the jobs are located elsewhere.
~ Joel Kotkin
Google at the end of 2013 had a market cap six times that of General Motors while having one-fifth as many American workers.
~ Joel Kotkin
The corporate joke among humans was that the official symbol of the barabo financial regulator was a shrug.
~ Joel Shepherd
Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.
~ Joely Richardson
My doctor is wonderful. Once, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the x-rays.
~ Joey Bishop
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
~ Brian Wilson
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
~ Walter Bagehot
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
~ Warren Buffett
Globalization is a fact of economic life
~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
~ Douglas Coupland
Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
~ Frank Lautenberg
I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.
~ Will Ferrell
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
~ George Voinovich
When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
~ Harvey Mackay
College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.
~ Henry Cho
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
~ Cathy Guisewite