Quotes About Finance

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

Every time Mexico really intelligently sends people over, we charge Mexico $100,000 for every person they send over.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.

He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation

The Communists and Socialists, those misguided liberals, must be fought against, and that takes money.

Concluye que una vez que una nación se acostumbra a endeudarse, le es casi imposible llegar a pagar las enormes obligaciones que contrae. Y condena con dureza a los Estados que, para pagar artificialmente lo que deben, desvalorizan sus monedas, con lo que pagan sólo una parte generalmente pequeña de las deudas que contrajeron.

The campaign was moving cash around the country as if it were monopoly money.