Quotes About Finance

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

Until Oklahoma! they were, despite the money he made, always very hand-to-mouth, a situation my mother managed with great agility, a nose for bargains, and a flair for double-entry bookkeeping. I used to brag about that last one, having no idea what it meant.

Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January's MasterCard bill. P.J. O'ROURKE

Money is not metal. It is trust inscribed. NIALL FERGUSON

As James Watson has put it, 'We talk about gene therapy as if it can change someone's fate, but you can also change someone's fate if you pay off their credit card.

Stevie, how many stories - It's all one story, Stevie said, and the confidence in her voice surprised her. It was about money then, and it's about money now.

Pero, desde luego, inversión es un vocablo de significado relativo. Depende de lo que se quiera conseguir.

The receptionist's salary, on the other hand, was taxed at almost twice that rate once FICA was included. From Buffett's perspective, the discrepancy was

like most wealthy Americans, almost all his income came from dividends and capital gains, investment income that since 2003 has been taxed at only 15 percent.

Innovations are financial risks.