Quotes About Finance

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I feel I've come home at the Treasury.

I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market.

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

As treasury secretary, I don't see it as my role commenting on the dollar in short-term movements.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor one.

I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns.

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

There have been many very successful acquirers, where they've bought up companies, and they've grown their earnings very rapidly, and the stock has appreciated tremendously.

Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.