Quotes About Finance

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

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.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

Business is other people's money.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

Banking is a branch of the information business.