Quotes About Finance

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

We had a bubble in housing.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

That's not the way the government works. You can't just take $1 billion from this program, $1 billion from over here, and then put it toward your pet project.

If you look at the international markets, for projects that are capital-intensive, the minute the construction phase is completed and production is supposed to start, normally all these loans get refinanced.

I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.

The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.

The blockchain is a distributed network that solves all the problems that we have of finance, but more broadly, it's like a philosophy. It's a way of life.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.

Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it.

We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of mobility - like a plane.