Quotes About Finance

For better or worse, cash is the oxygen of your business, and you can't last long in any environment without it.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'

My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

I'm a strong believer in Intel's stock. That's a large amount of my net worth, and I'm passionate about Intel's future.

Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.

Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

You look at Rand Paul's bill. He's got refundable tax credits. So many other bills that are out there have had this. Dr. Tom Price, who is secretary of HHS under President Trump, he had an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that had tax credits.

We read the financial papers and there's a ton of tech and media mergers and acquisitions we're likely to take inspiration from.

I made a ton of money.

The signing bonus is a ton of money, especially for a 21-year-old. But I'm not going to live off that money. At some point, I'm going to live off a college degree.

I made a ton of money in my career.

There will be trillions of dollars under Addepar. You will have tons of money and information flowing through it.

Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

The housing market has bottomed. It's not too late to get involved.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.