Quotes About Finance

The focus in the pages of this book is on how the momentum of climate policies—powered by research and observation, by climate models, and by political mobilization and regulatory power, social activism, financial institutions, and deepening anxiety—will transform the energy system. "Net zero carbon" will be one of the great challenges of the decades ahead, not just politically but also in how people live their lives and in the costs of achieving it.

For me, there is no strategy that is divorced from profitability

January 1861, fell to 50 cents by June and, by the end of 1861, were down

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

"On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come, no collections will have to be made."

Thank God I have a financial planner who is really conservative.

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

The older Romans used temples as their banks, as we use banks as our temples;

even a tax on the tax-collecting farmers general.

It's very odd...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate--all those values shrink abominably.

The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters.

This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

the undistributed profits, which rose from 175 million marks in 1932 to five billion marks in 1938, a year in which the total savings in the savings banks amounted to only two billions

In 2016, the $148 million allocated to the National Endowment for the Arts accounted for .004% of the federal budget expenditures ($3.9 trillion). Suppose we eliminated it in response to criticism? Trying to balance the budget by eliminating the NEA would be like editing a 90,000-word novel by eliminating 4 words.

The U.S. national debt is $27 trillion.

The U.S. national debt is $27 trillion—$82,000 per citizen.

and cleaned out the joint Westbeach account),

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124 000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500 000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120 000 investment.