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Quotes About Finance

When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I?
~ Upton Sinclair
Currency inflation is to the government what as anesthetic is to the surgeon; it provides an easy and painless way of separating the rich from their savings and reducing the wages of all employed persons in the community.
~ Upton Sinclair
When they get through, the country will be in the hands of the very same men who financed Hitler and who will have no idea in the world but to finance some new 'strong' government to keep the Socialists from winning an election.
~ Upton Sinclair
All the losses came back on those who had fixed incomes and salaries; the only gainers were speculators, and those fortunate few whose incomes were in dollars.
~ Upton Sinclair
How will you handle a large infusion of new capital or a large withdrawal?
~ Van K. Tharp
At 5% pretax profit, your business is on life support. • At 10% pretax profit, the business is doing well but has some untapped potential. • At 15% pretax profit, the business is in great shape. • Anything above 15% indicates that you should earn it while you can. The market will figure out what's going on, competition will show up, and you will eventually get pushed back.
~ Verne Harnish
Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash flow is king." You
~ Verne Harnish
Cash is the oxygen that fuels growth. And the cash conversion cycle (CCC) is a key performance indicator (KPI) that measures how long it takes for a dollar spent on anything (rent, utilities, marketing, payroll, etc.) to make its way through your business and back into your pocket. In
~ Verne Harnish
You can get by with decent People, Strategy, and Execution, but not a day without Cash. Cash becomes even more critical as the business scales up, since "growth sucks cash." The key is innovating ways to generate sufficient profit and cash flow internally, so you don't have to turn to banks (or sharks!) to fuel your growth.
~ Verne Harnish
successful companies held three to 10 times more cash assets than average for their industries, and they did so from the time they started. (We
~ Verne Harnish
1 weakness of growth firms is marketing, the #2 problem is accounting.
~ Verne Harnish
Scaling Up is organized around the 4 Decisions a leader must address: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.
~ Verne Harnish
in 1974 a grown woman with a job couldn't get a credit card in her name.
~ Kristin Hannah
People's incomes over a certain level aren't taxed to pay for Social Security at all.
~ Kurt Andersen
over those three decades, while the number of students grew by half, the amount of money they borrowed each year increased twelvefold. For the financial industry, a small revenue stream turned into a great roaring river.
~ Kurt Andersen
Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
~ la bruyere jean de ii
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
~ la bruyere jean de iv
SBIcap securities like most other stock brokerage firms is a charlatan that dupes its clients
~ Laksheish M Patel
99% of the traders lose their money in stock market not only because of stock buying at wrong price, but one of the major reasons for this is hoodwinking nature of Brokerage firms and that is why they are called DALAAL means BHADWEY who can cheat anyone for money
~ Lakshheish M Patel
99.99% of predictions have gone right so far about the stock market and it can be verified by old messages
~ Lakshheish M Patel
A govt share of Rs.200 increases by 50 paise only often whereas decreases by Rs.3 to 5 so if a trader buys and sells it for intraday will eventually lose money in brokerage and taxes only.
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Amongst all investments like Saving Accounts, Fixed Deposit, NSC, Bonds, Gold, Mutual Funds, SIP, Real Estate property, Stock Shares it has been found that Shares & Mutual Funds have been the worst and people are feeling like being looted in broad daylight
~ Lakshheish M Patel
As everyday, SBI securities had jammed its web trading platform to not allow traders to sell its shares. Like all other brokerage houses it is a trickester whose only business is to loot investors money by hook or crook
~ Lakshheish M Patel