Quotes About Finance

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

I am a deficit hawk.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

I love the show 'Billions.' But the main character is basically a hedge fund scumbag, and he's the hero.

I don't see any magic in hedge funds.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad

a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

I tell you, my students, a man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging. That is what every man desireth. That is what thou, each one of thee desireth; an income that continueth to come whether thou work or travel.

He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow.

Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.

1. Start thy purse to fattening 2. Control thy expenditures 3. Make thy gold multiply 4. Guard thy treasures from loss 5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment 6. Insure a future income 7. Increase thy ability to earn

Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will it reduce his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and the gratification of his desires. This, then, is the fifth cure for a lean purse: Own thy own home.

It was a common custom for men to put themselves, their wives or their children up as a bond to guarantee payment of loans

Nonsense," reproved Kobbi, "a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that constantly keeps his purse full, no matter how liberally he spends." "Income, that is the thing

Therefore, be not swayed by the fantastic plans of impractical men who think they see ways to force thy gold to make earnings unusually large. Such plans are the creations of dreamers unskilled in the safe and dependable laws of trade. Be conservative in what thou expect it to earn that thou mayest keep and enjoy thy treasure. To hire it out with a promise of usurious returns is to invite loss.