Quotes About Finance

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

When the gig ain't there, you still got to pay the rent. I learned that a long time ago.

I'm really sensible with my money. So I would like to own my own house rather than rent.

I'm not against a new band doing commercials to pay the rent.

I'm happy to make returns of 4% to 6% a year on my real estate portfolio. If inflation comes along I'll be able to increase rent and have capital appreciation roughly in line with inflation.

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

The government's focus is very clear: borrow, build, monetise and repay.

Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

We could repeal Dodd-Frank. I think that would be a big help.

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'

I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.

I want money to replace mental energy and physical effort.

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.

It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s.