Quotes About Finance

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.

VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.

If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?