Quotes About Finance

I couldn't afford to be offended.

has never been hard for me to pay my taxes because I understand it to be the repaying of a large, in fact, an almost incalculable, debt.

One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.

It annoys me how expensive it is to live in London, but I think that annoys everyone.

I'm very close to thinking the United States shouldn't be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American. Our regulators should go there and say, 'If it's not in the interests of the United States, we're not doing it.'

I was always anxious about whether I'd find a career I loved or be able to afford to buy a house.

If I do my job right, companies will want to keep their money in Argentina.

The forty thousand francs you want would be, of course, a mere nothing to Ferdinand, who handles millions with that fat banker, Baron de Nucingen. Sometimes, at dinner, in my presence, they say things to each other which make me shudder. Du Tillet knows my discretion, and they often talk freely before me, being sure of my silence. Well, robbery and murder on the high-road seem to me merciful compared to some of their financial schemes.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

There's only one way to describe most investors: trend followers.

If one is approached with a deal predicated on cycles having ceased to occur, remember that invariably that's a losing bet.

No asset class or investment has the birthright of a high return. An asset is only attractive if it's priced right.

Most people view risk taking primarily as a way to make money. Bearing higher risk generally produces higher returns...But it can't always work that way, or else risk investments wouldn't be risky. And when risk bearing doesn't work, it really doesn't work, and people are reminded what risk's all about.

Most people view risk taking primarily as a way to make money. Bearing higher risk generally produces higher returns...But it can't always work that way, or else risky investments wouldn't be risky. And when risk bearing doesn't work, it really doesn't work, and people are reminded what risk's all about.

The Bank of England distributes the nation's money regionally in this way to avoid the danger of a single calamitous incident at one building destroying its stock of bank notes. This is important because, despite cheques and plastic, the public still uses a vast amount of cash. Approximately £37 billion is fluttering around the national economy daily in paper money.

At an early age I made up my mind never to have bills when I grew up. I could not know then that this determination would extend eventually to the point of not being married or having a family of my own.

The day was not far off when, as the saying goes, if Wall Street sneezed, the rest of the world would catch a cold. And Wall Street had not discovered how to stop itself sneezing.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession.

Never sell a dull market." I believe that this was intended for bull markets, for it appears just as dangerous to "buy a dull market"—during a bear market.

Ignored in the self-laudatory commentary about the stock market's performance were other less positive facts. The Karachi Stock Exchange's market capitalization in 2016 stood at a meagre $89 billion, which compares unfavourably with the $320 billion capitalization of the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh.

Political scientists don't work at bankswhich is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questionsas analysts at banks areyou never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

New York used to be the financial capital of the world. It's no longer even the financial capital of the U.S. For the moment, Washington is.

You pay taxes, but the law doesn't allow you any say in how they are spent, let alone the option to withhold them when you want to influence Government policy.

The Black–Scholes equation changed the world by creating a booming quadrillion-dollar industry; its generalisations, used unintelligently by a small coterie of bankers, changed the world again by contributing to a multitrillion-dollar financial crash whose ever more malign effects, now extending to entire national economics, are still being felt worldwide.