Quotes About Finance

When making their loans, the bankers should have thought more carefully about how easily they could call back the money - essentially a question about the liquidity of the loan.

The first is that poverty is not the result of rapacious financiers exploiting the poor. It has much more to do with the lack of financial institutions, with the absence of banks, not their presence.

Though we hear much less about it, India had made a bigger contribution to the imperial war than Australia in terms of both finance and manpower.

Credit was, quite simply, the total of banks' assets (loans).

relationships between debtors and creditors brokered or 'intermediated' by increasingly numerous institutions called banks. The core function of these institutions was now information gathering and risk management.

After the creation of credit by banks, the birth of the bond was the second great revolution in the ascent of money.

without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission or commission of central banks.

La inflación —escribía Milton Friedman en una célebre definición— es siempre y en todas partes un fenómeno monetario, en el sentido de que no puede producirse sin un incremento más rápido en la cantidad de dinero que en la producción.»

Governments (and large corporations) issue bonds as a way of borrowing money from a broader range of people and institutions than just banks.

so why with a potential boyfriend does she think it's OK not only to let him pay, but to start off their entire relationship that way?

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.

I think what we really need to think about is how do we reimagine the management and movement of money in an era where everyone will have a smartphone.

The Democrats tax anything that moves.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

Movies are an expensive business.

In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators.

I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.

My mum and dad were always careful with money.

It was extraordinary living in Mumbai, navigating my course, understanding how to manage my finances on my own, mapping out my daily expenses.

The Mumbai film industry has definitely a bigger reach. But considering the rich content of work in many Bengali films, even by new directors, there has to be a better financially backed distribution model for films here.

It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this.