Quotes About Finance

I scrapbook therefore I am - broke.

The market takes the stairs up and the elevator down.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Papa, it's too expesive.' ' That's for me to worry about.

A soldier's basic pay was nine hundred sesterces a year, entailing an aggregate expenditure of 140 million sesterces.

he may also have received, or seized, tax receipts from Asia on their way to the Roman treasury

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

As the sixth largest economy in the world, the economic engine of the nation, and provider of a large percentage of the federal budget, California carries a lot of weight.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Fiscal prudence is very important.

It's no accident that Montana is the most fiscally prudent state in the nation.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.

My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base - then it was time to give back and go into public service.

People don't realize how much money you have to spend: styling, publicity, a manager, and your agent. That's a chunk of change.

Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.