Quotes About Finance

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.

I don't know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country!

Is it worth a million dollars more a year or two million dollars more a year, especially if you're taking care of your money investment-wise, is it worth that two being in an environment that you don't want to be in?

Just don't spend your money, and you're well on your way to becoming a millionaire.

I make $7 million per year. I'm not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We're still millionaires.

I just count money, that's all I do. I count my millions.

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

We all forget that when a TV network says, 'Look, we're broke,' it means that they're not making as much money as they would like to be making. They're still making millions and millions of dollars - they're just not making billions and billions of dollars.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own instruments.

Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.

A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor.

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.