Quotes About Finance

We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

Advice? Look at your pay statements.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

Always protect yourself. Every woman, no matter what her age, romantic or marital status, should have a bank account in her own name.

I do think the blockchain infrastructure is here to stay.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living.

I think whether it's a good idea or not to take the startup plunge comes down to the responsibilities of the individual. If you have a family to care for or a huge mortgage payment, then quitting your steady day job to launch a startup probably isn't the best decision to make.

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

Private sector has no issue in coming into infrastructure sector. They know very well that infrastructure is one area that can give you very steady long-term returns.

So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.

I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.

The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central bankers have taken an activist turn.