Quotes About Finance

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Sometimes people start making a change with without making sure the first the first source of income sticks.

I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.

To create employment, we need to stimulate the economy, and to stimulate the economy, we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt and using it to buy long term debt. In finance, we tend to think that's a neutral activity, even though those stimulus programs are huge.

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

Like a bank run, a decline in stock prices creates its own momentum.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.