Quotes About Finance

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.

There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

About 10 minutes before I found out that I had landed 'Fantastic Beasts', I got a residual check in the mail for zero dollars. On the check it said 'Advice Slip.' And I was like, 'Well, what's the advice? Go into another line of work?

I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero.

The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return.

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.

I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

The borrower is servant to die lender.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.