Quotes About Finance

It's public news my dad was up and down financially.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

Most banks tell their customers that they only pay a small upfront fee for international payments. But in reality, customers pay much more.

If you decide you need a secured card, use it to charge small items every month, then pay the balance off in full. If your credit score improves, and the bank doesn't offer to upgrade your card within 12 to 18 months, give them a call. If they refuse, try another lender.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Let's face reality. To ensure Hong Kong remains competitive, we have to uphold a very low tax regime.

I don't think there's anything wrong with feminist uplift. That's how we got credit cards in our own name.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that will pay for it.

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

Working on Ethereum could be similar to working at a Google: lower risk with broad impact right away. Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater incentive for savers to save and investors to invest.

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

For generations of Hong Kongers, the only means of upward mobility and the only way to meaningfully contribute to society have been to obtain a respectable university degree (preferably in business administration) and a professional accreditation (in finance, accounting, law or medicine).

...you can ruin your credit in one seemingly responsible afternoon, but rebuilding it takes years.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.