Quotes About Finance

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

I think it can be difficult to get funding for a film, but I was lucky.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

trading on key support/ resistance as a MUST.

I never enter any trade without correction

International Match debentures were quoted at $129, a high level for a security that would repay just $100 in eighteen years. The price was so high because of the conversion right. According to Berning "practically all debenture holders" had converted into common shares.15

Several salesmen focused on how many "bars" they made. To derivatives salesmen, a "bar" is not a place to go for drinks. A "bar" is a salary, a huge salary, with a long line of zeros, at least six of them. On Wall Street, you never said, "I make a million dollars a year." You said, "I make a bar." Lots of DPG employees made bars, often several. Of course, I, too, wanted to make bars, and by the end of the day I was salivating.

My money is in the hands of strangers.

He said he'd like to help the chief financial officer himself, because he was a good and honest man, but he didn't know how to go about it, and he could only hope that influential people would intervene in his behalf. He thought that would surely happen and that things would turn out well, but for the moment, as he gathered form the chief financial officer's mood, things didn't look at all good.

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

I will always choose the dollar bill carrying a wildly fluctuating discount rather than the dollar bill selling for a quite stable premium.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

What you want to watch are the lenders, not the borrowers. The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It's up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.

We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.