Quotes About Finance

The Ways and Means Committee is supposed to find ways to divide up the means.

Labor takes its share in wages; capital takes its share in profits.

the balance sheet is the company's thermometer. It lets you know whether you're healthy or not.

one reason we like liquidity as a Balance-Sheet goal. It greatly increases the odds that we will have the cash we need to pay bonuses and do a lot of other things.

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Your retirement plan is for shit.

Why buy a home with your own hard-earned money when you can use somebody else's?

So how can one make money in the market? I told you about: #1. Pick some stocks and hold them forever.

If you tell someone that getting a job and a salary might not be the best way to make money, in fact it might be the best way to go broke, this doesn't even compute. The investment bias is too large. "This is my entire life you're talking about!" This

If anything, diversify not across stocks but across the smart people you follow. That is real diversification instead of "Yahoo Finance diversification.

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide. G)

Bonuses went up. And a rich person puts the extra dollar in the bank while a poor person pays the rent. So

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide.

What is the purpose of budgeting? Most

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.