Quotes About Finance

before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding. But since I'm married, except renewing, of course, I give you my honour I've not touched a bit of stamped paper.

Put money in thy purse.

there is no such thing as a good tax

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

Un uomo che ha guai finanziari è un uomo costretto tutto il tempo ad avere idee per trovare denaro. Non abbiate timore. Quando un individuo deve cavarsela, se la caverà

The financial world as moral example, she thought. Well, wonders would never cease

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

So if money is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That's what all those criminals trade in: fictions.

pronto se hizo obvio un desequilibrio: lo que él me podía enseñar (naturaleza de los instrumentos, procedimientos, análisis de balances, etc.) era finito, mientras que mi dominio era inagotable. Las reglas y las def. son fijas; las condiciones y nuestras reacciones a ellas cambian a cada hora. Cierto, A me había proporcionado capital. Pero al cabo de un año más o menos, yo ya se lo había devuelto con creces y podría, en teoría, haberme establecido por mi cuenta.

But going against the mkt., everything is turned on its head: the more a stock is depreciated, the larger the profit, and vice versa.

Today's gentleman is yesterday's upstart. But behind these shifting characters there is a constant presence: the financier. Investing, lending, borrowing and, more widely, the efficient administration of capital is what sustained the city at each of those periods, regardless of what was being produced and sold.