Quotes About Finance

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.

I told myself after my football career was over that if I ever started making good money again, I would invest it wisely.

I have learned to spend money wisely.

I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by government officials.

Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.

I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make.

What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.

Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That's very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more... There are people who live within their budget.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.

There isn't a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say.

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.

I really did like 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' But not seeing women represented in that world, it definitely had less resonance for me.

Wolves paid £30m for me, and if they sell me it'll surely be for more.