Quotes About Finance

I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.

Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

We didn't want to sound like an old and crusty financial institution. We wanted to sound like we were fast moving and that we had this killer technology that was also safe.

To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.

I'm the king of debt.

In times of crisis, cash is king.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

If you're on an indie label, you're not getting enough money. And if you're on a major, you're not getting enough support.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

Corbyn Labour's budget numbers simply don't add up on the NHS and the economy.

Profit ? Cash (and You Need Both)

Accounting and finance are not reality, the are a reflection of reality, and the accuracy of that reflection depends on the ability of accountants and finance professionals to make reasonable assumptions and to calculate reasonable estimates.

Absent in such knowledge, what happens? Simple: the people from accounting and finance control the decisions. We use the word control because when decisions are based on numbers, and when the numbers are based on accountants' assumptions and estimates, then the accountants and finance folks have effective control (even if they aren't trying to control anything). That's why you should need to know what questions to ask.

Although this book focuses on increasing your financial intelligence in business, you can also apply what you'll learn in your personal life.

It might surprise you to know that, for the most part, finance involves addition and subtraction. When finance people get really fancy, they multiply and divide. We never have to take the second derivative of a function or determine the area under a curve (sorry, engineers). So have no fear: the math is easy. And calculators are cheap. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to be financially intelligent.

The art of accounting and finance is the art of using limited data to come as close as possible to an accurate description of how well a company is performing.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to be financially intelligent.

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

What if every company strategised around a Doughnut table, asking itself: is our brand a Doughnut brand, whose core business helps to bring humanity into that safe and just space? Imagine if the G20 finance ministers—representing the world's most powerful economies—met around a Doughnut-shaped conference table to discuss how to design a global financial system that served to bring humanity into that sweet spot. These would be world-changing conversations.