Quotes About Finance

The theory of "free banking," as it is called, is not merely a hypothetical academic speculation. Private competing currencies circulated in Scotland from early in the eighteenth century until 1844. During that period, Scotland had no central bank. There were few

In almost every competitive area, including most of the world's multitrillion-dollar investment activity, the migration of transactions into cyberspace will be driven by an almost hydraulic pressure—the impetus to avoid predatory taxation, including the tax that inflation places upon everyone who holds his wealth in a national currency.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he'll be broke within the year.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

Today, at least $11.7 billion of the approximately $20 billion the CPA ordered sent to Iraq from New York is either unaccounted for or has simply disappeared.

Well, I've already got ten thousand set aside. That's a good start. If you think about it when we get home, give me your Social and next time I drop by the bank, I'll open an account in your name, okay?

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

The particular way in which he was choosing to dice recklessly with death today was by trying to pay for a drinks bill the size of a small defence budget with an American Express card, which was not acceptable anywhere in the known Universe.

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

The last thing he wanted to be was another chump. If small-time investors knew how they were being reamed out by the big boys every day, they'd never invest again.

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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Oh! Uang! Segala kesulitan di dunia ini pasti disebabkan oleh soal uang, atau kekurangan uang.

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is!

It's frightening, you know, how soon money goes if you're not clever about it.

I had no idea that Black women only get 0.2 percent of all venture capital investments until I was looking and saying, "Where's the money?

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.