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Quotes About Finance

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
~ Joseph Addison
I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
~ Joseph Addison
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation.
~ Joseph Conrad
we will manage the worlds finance whether world likes it or not.
~ Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
The financial sector provides ample rewards for those who agree with them: lucrative consultancies, research grants, and the like. The documentary raises a question: Could this have influenced some economists' judgments?
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
If a business borrows to buy a machine, it's a good thing, not a bad thing. During the past six years, America—its government, its families, the country as a whole—has been borrowing to sustain its consumption. Meanwhile, investment in fixed assets—the plants and equipment that help increase our wealth—has been declining.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
It's all about the money.
~ Joseph Jackson
There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.
~ Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
By a closed economic system is meant the idea that the world's energy supply, upon which the financial system of the banksters is based, is founded upon non-renewable energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and so on. Hence, the system is closed since the whole premise of the system is scarcity and nonrenewability.
~ Joseph P. Farrell
since a practically engineerable open-systems physics implies the democratization not only of energy, but its corollaries, finance and political power, across a very broad spectrum of people, as a greater mass of people would be lifted up to greater wealth, freedom, and prosperity.
~ Joseph P. Farrell
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
~ Joseph Roux
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
~ Erma Bombeck
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
~ Ernest Haskins
No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.
~ Ernest Mandel
I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.
~ Ernie Banks
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
~ Ernst Fischer
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
~ Errol Flynn
Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.
~ Eugene F. Brigham
TIAA is the largest agricultural investor in the world, the third largest commercial real estate manager in the world, and number 80 on the Fortune 500.
~ Eula Biss
The Federal Reserve is a fount of credit, not of capital.
~ Eustace Clarence Mullins
ECCLES: That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.
~ Eustace Clarence Mullins
I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.
~ Eva Herzigova
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
~ Evan Davis
You can't win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.
~ John W. Henry