Quotes About Finance

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. —Lord Thomas R. Duwar

The safest port in a sea of uncertainty is diversification.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Biden is making America the world's ATM again.

he was the chief accountant and representative of the king's treasury.

King Charles was supposed to pay for Magellan's ships, according to the contract, he was deeply in debt.

The food represented a considerable investment: 1,252,909 maravedís, nearly as much as the cost of the entire fleet

the House of Fugger, for which he worked, had enough money to finance ten expeditions, or more;

Magellan's pay came to 50,000 maravedís, and an additional 8,000 maravedís each month.

The lure of spices impelled sober, cautious financiers to back highly risky expeditions to unknown parts of the globe

They {alien parasites} begin by invading the minds of individuals in government, military, medicine, finance, media, education, academia, secret societies and religion. They give these individuals what is essentially a computer virus. From these foxholes, they launch their spiritual warfare against the general population and against specific individuals.

Federal taxes may be due on up to half of your Social Security benefits if what's called your "combined income" is more than $25,000 a year ($32,000 for joint filers). If you make between $25,000 and $34,000 ($32,000 and $44,000 for joint returns), you may owe federal taxes on up to 85 percent of your benefits.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

economic relations with our East Asian satellites have, for example, hollowed out our domestic manufacturing industries and led us into a reliance on finance capitalism, whose appearance has in the past been a sign of a hitherto healthy economy entering decline.

After adjusting the comparison of index funds to actively managed funds for survivorship bias, taxes, and loads, the dominance of index funds reaches insurmountable proportions. Once

An active manager must overcome the drag of about 3.25 percent in annual operating costs. If the fund manager is only to match the market's historical 9 percent return, he or she must return 12.25 percent before all those costs. In other words, to do merely as well as the market, an active fund manager must be able to outperform the market return by over one-third or 34.1 percent!5

And if you don't believe me or even Charley, remember that Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of our time, has opined that all investors would be better off if their portfolio contained a diversified group of index funds.

As market expert Jason Zweig puts it, "If we shopped for stocks the way we shop for socks, we'd be better off." We are wrong when we feel good about stocks having gone up, and we are wrong when we feel bad about stocks having gone down.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.