Quotes About Finance

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

I was born to be a basketball player, not to be a guy who succeeds inside Goldman Sachs.

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.

You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

The best way to afford a suit is to work.

My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

In addition to their risky investments, the big banks have a history of breaking the law whenever it suits their purpose, which is to make more money.