Quotes About Finance

We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.

While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.

Maybe bitcoin is a kind of a bubble. I don't like it. I'm not comfortable with it. I'm kind of an old dog to be absorbing that kind of a new trick.

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Every financial worry you want to banish and financial dream you want to achieve comes from taking tiny steps today that put you on a path toward your goals.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

The value of a company can be derived from adding the value of all future dividends written down to net present value. Therefore, a reasoned view of the future is essential.

Anything of even mildly antiquarian or historic interest was the target of destruction, and anyone who deplored the way the city was remaking itself from a sleepy seaport into a bustling capital of finance was regarded as a hopeless sentimentalist.

Budgets were originally designed as control mechanisms. As such they are traps …

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

Bagshaw owned a half share in the harness business and a quarter share in the tannery and that made him a business man. He paid for a pew in the Presbyterian Church and that represented religion in Parliament. He attended college for two sessions thirty years ago, and that represented education and kept him abreast with modern science, if not ahead of it. He kept a little account in one bank and a big account in the other, so that he was a rich man or a poor man at the same time.

It's not about working for money, it's about having money work for you.

Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.

I figured I could easily live a year on the twelve hundred, and, at first, I thought of France. But there'd be the nuisance of learning frog-talk and the passage there and back. Besides, I wanted to be near a big library. My novel was going to be about the American Revolution, if you can picture it. I'd read "Henry Esmond" over and over and I wanted to write a book like that.