Quotes About Finance

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

San Francisco is not a boutique - it's a center of commerce.

I had decided on L.A. because I felt like I could handle the cost of living out there. It was just too difficult in San Francisco and New York.

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

America's fiscal future is frightening.

I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

I am not frugal - I'm quite a big spender - but not on credit.

This is what I spend money on, dried fruit.

You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

Every government has a fixed budget and demands of all sectors have to be fulfilled in that amount.

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.

Every film is hard to fund.

I don't fund county roads.

The index fund always gives you the market return.

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

Fundamentals make the market.