Quotes About Finance

There was a time when people thought that if you piled a bunch of mortgages together, the top of the pile was AAA. There are a lot of things that become consensus.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.

It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

And just as in the George W. Bush years, war spending plus huge tax cuts conspired to produce gargantuan budget deficits.

when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

Loss aversion kicks in when it comes to savings. … Mentally and emotionally and intuitively, [I] frame savings as a loss because I have to cut my spending.

A bank hates to rush —it takes its time.