Quotes About Finance

The company began attracting influential new investors.

By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar—more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple—and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard-nosed about it; he forced all Pixar employees to give up their options as part of his agreement to add another round of personal funding in 1991. But he was also a romantic in his love for what artistry and technology could do together.

They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man

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Dan Bricklin, who conceived the first financial spreadsheet program, VisiCalc.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

I do wish, however, that Ms. Olson would give me some credit for the progress I've already made. In 1944, I filed my first 1040, reporting my income as a thirteen-year-old newspaper carrier. The return covered three pages. After I claimed the appropriate business deductions, such as $35 for a bicycle, my tax bill was $7. I sent my check to the Treasury and it — without comment — promptly cashed it. We lived in peace.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun if making money and watching it grow.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.