Quotes About Finance

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

You can't time the market.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round— more than a body could tell what to do with.

My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates of inflation. I do not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or hard money. The great fundamental principle of my life is to take any kind I can get.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Yo estaba en la creencia de que un mecanismo de gobierno como el de un Estado acabaría con la racha de prosperidad y quería largarme de allí. Pensaba que las acciones mineras que poseía valdrían pronto cien mil dólares, y si alcanzaban esa cotización antes que se aprobase la Constitución, las vendería y me pondría a cubierto de la rutina financiera que el cambio de gobierno iba a traer sobre el país.

Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

That same day he wrote to Austen Chamberlain, to explain that he would soon have to ask for 'substantial repayments' of French and Italian war debts, already more than six years overdue.

I think the rich, whether idle or not, are already taxed in this country to the very highest point compatible with the accumulation of capital for future production.

banks were 'international in life, but national in death'.

In a country supposedly dedicated to the ideals of market economics, arguably the most important social function of finance Ã¢â'¬â€œ lending for home purchase Ã¢â'¬â€œ had become almost completely nationalized.

The foreign newspapers had dumped the old exotics in favor of the younger generation. The exotics didn't suit the image of the New India—a nuclear power and an emerging destination for international finance. Ustad

we pay doctors to give chemotherapy and to do surgery but not to take the time required to sort out when to do so is unwise. This certainly is a factor. But the issue isn't merely a matter of financing. It arises from a still unresolved argument about what the function of medicine really is—what, in other words, we should and should not be paying for doctors to do.

When he signed his contract for the 1999 season, he insisted that his salary be $1,200,000.99.

He was furious that the music house wanted forty grand. He wanted us to Jew them down

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Who pays for the orgy?

The initial buy-stop should have been placed right above the prior rally high

Edward Clark had paid $200,000 for the land in 1877. When Louis Glickman was able to sell roughly half this land in 1961 for $2,000,000, it was clear that the value of West Side real estate had increased by 1,000 percent in a little more than eighty years.

Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.

Better educated or financially comfortable people often smile more than less educated or economically distressed people.