Quotes About Finance

I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.

Your wealth is the value of your assets - your retirement accounts, your home, the unsold stocks - minus your debts, like your credit-card bill and your mortgage.

I have no idea what stocks I held in the '90s, in the 2000s, or even now.

Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

Members of Congress - with or without inside information - simply should not be allowed to trade stocks.

Stop spending money you don't have.

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.

If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.

Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy another business in America, grow jobs or try to become more financially strong, that is good for the United States.

As you would expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world.

Few human inventions are more complex and tightly coupled than the banking system; Charles

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.