Quotes About Finance

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.

Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.

The best climbers no longer go to the 8000ers, but to the most difficult mountains in the world which are 6000 or 7000-meter-peaks. There they find any kind of playground. But it is a pity that the really good climbers have fewer opportunities to finance their expeditions because so much attention is taken away by the Everest tourists.

I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.

Players need to look at their own tours, which are run separately from the slams, and ask why they haven't improved the funds on offer.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.

My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.

Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.

When Charlie Crist went independent, I no longer supported him. Just track the money.