Quotes About Finance

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

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

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

Being an investment banker has given me a front row seat at the center of innovation

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.