Quotes About Finance

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

I have millions of dollars, and I don't know finance. I've had some bad things happen in my career. I've got to educate myself. I sit down with my finance guy once a month and go over everything, line by line.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Fortunately, in Piramal Enterprises, we are in three broad sectors. One is in the whole financial services sector, the second is in pharmaceuticals, and the third is in healthcare analytics and data.

My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.

I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?

In 2003, Travelex acquired Thomas Cook Financial Services. We only had use of the Thomas Cook name for five years, so I had to increase public awareness of Travelex to migrate all Cook operations over to it. It was a success.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.

For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

In our first decade, I interviewed about five thousand people in pursuit of the talent that would create our future. As our success grew, we became known across the four corners of finance not just for our outstanding returns, but also for our outstanding people.

My phone bill is four thousand dollars when I'm out of the country.

Want a better economy and a lower unemployment rate? Quit pretending you can stop people from gambling online.

Thus, more of the ordinary person's money got syphoned off into the Exchequer, where it largely financed war and paid the interest due to wealthy investors in the National Debt.

la monstruosa, la tormentosa, la irresistible capital del cheque. Rodeada de islas menores, tiene cerca a Jersey; y agarrada a Brooklyn

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.