Quotes About Finance

A good quant must be a mixture, too—part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

At all hours the financier is trampling on the living, the attorney on the dead, the pleader on the conscience. Forced to be speaking without a rest, they all substitute words for ideas, phrases for feelings, and their soul becomes a larynx.

An honest woman ought to be in a financial condition such as forbids her lover to think she will ever cost him anything.

She studied the airline's frequent flier statement, detailing dates and points of departure and arrival far different from what she had been led to believe. She found certificates of deposit and money market accounts. For the most part, she was dispassionate

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Those deterrents—the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors—which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People

if people could be made to save money, the King could obtain it when necessary.

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

the Bank of England, chartered in 1694 to raise money for war with France,

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

In order to achieve the widest possible distribution of political power, financial contributions to political campaigns should be made by individuals and individuals alone.

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

People are realizing that there is a financial consequence to not opening doors. It doesn't mean that they are any more inclusive in their hearts - it means they're more inclusive in their wallets.

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

I've been a pain in the rear for the Republican Party, and if I were to continue to be involved in the Democratic Party, I will continue to be a pain in the rear on campaign finance, health care, the environment. I'm not interested in party loyalty issues.

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government's insolvency.

If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.

The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.

I want to see the economy rebound.

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.