Quotes About Finance

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.

It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that?

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

In the meantime, as tax receipts dwindled, the library's budget was cut by almost a quarter.

After the stock market crash, book circulation rose by sixty percent, and the number of patrons almost doubled.

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'