Quotes About Finance

If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract.

Campaign laws are virtually nonexistent. By 1975, thirty-two people from the Nixon era had gone to jail or paid heavy fines for campaign finance law violations. All of the things for which they were convicted are now legal.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not — the government won't let me try it.

One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

All the financial knowledge in the world will not benefit clients if they are unable or unwilling psychologically to act on that knowledge.

In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value.

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber,

In 2017, Amazon spent $22.6 billion on R&D, compared to Alphabet ($16.6 billion), Intel ($13.1 billion), and Microsoft ($12.3 billion).

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Spend money to make money.

Every time he was called out, no matter the hour or the condition of the patient, he was there to answer the same implicit question: Should we spend coin at a hospital for this? Whether it was fever, injured leg, vomiting child, or anything, really, they just wanted to know if he could fix it without having to turn their life savings over to the medical bureaucracy.

After all, what does the stock market sell us if not the unfounded hope of a rosy future?

Single male CEOs take bigger financial risks in order to appear more attractive.

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.

Nothing wrong with making money.

Economists often get the market wrong.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

Money can make money if you're intelligent about it and don't waste it the wrong way.