Quotes About Finance

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set a buyer back over $1100.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

If a gig goes badly, my main worry is, 'Will these people come back?' Because that will affect my ability to pay the mortgage - but nowadays, I don't really mind what happens, as I think if it all goes wrong for real, you still have to go with it.

I'm a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

I don't want to continue to fund Obamacare.

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

We're trying to make sure that financial advisers act like lawyers and doctors. When you go to a lawyer or doctor, they have an obligation to put your best interests first. Financial advisers don't.

We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.

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

Pennies saved one and two at a time

The little difference between what we earn and what we spend is capital.

Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm.

Take my advice Meggie: Never develop a passion you can't afford!

I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields.

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

alrededor del quince por ciento del éxito financiero de cada uno se debe al conocimiento técnico, y alrededor del 85 por ciento se debe a la habilidad en la tecnología humana: la personalidad y la capacidad para tratar con la gente.

XIV. COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF PROPERTY How, After the war, triumphant industry in the North coupled with privilege and monopoly led an orgy of death that engulfed the nation and was the natural child of war; and how revolt against this anarchy became reaction against democracy, North and South, and delivered the lands into the hands of an organized monarchy of finance while it overthrew the attempt at a dictatorship of labor in the South.

The new organization of northern wealth was not comparable to the petty bourgeoisie which seized power after the overthrow of European feudalism. It was a new rule of associated and federated monarchs and finance wielding a vaster and more despotic power than European kings and nobles ever held. It was destined to subdue not only simply Southern agrarianism but even individual wealth and brains in the North which were creating a new petty bourgeoisie of small merchants and skilled artisans.

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to have skin in the game and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year." Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months.