Quotes About Finance

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirin.

A smart person never ever buys a house or anything on any financial loan.

It is against nature for money to beget money.

After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.

One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

First, pay off your high-interest-rate debt. If you have student loan debt - that's low interest rate; that has a tax benefit - you can leave that out. A mortgage can be an OK one. Credit card debt is poison. That needs to be paid off right away.

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.