Quotes About Finance

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don't stay broke.

In the sample of accountants, 64 percent were ST, and among the finance and

J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

Surely the spiritual leader must be sincere in promise, faithful in discharge of duty, upright in finances, loyal in service, and honest in speech.

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Laura had read somewhere that tweens—eight to fourteen-year-olds—had so much discretionary income and expensive tastes that they drove the whole economy. Not just the US economy, but the world's. She

The church is the only nonprofit on the planet that does not want its leader to know everything he or she can about how the nonprofit functions and pays its bills.

The huge seventy-billion a year 'defense' budget

Never be on the bear side but on the bull side when the United States is in question.

Meanwhile, in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt-am-Main, Mayer Rothschild (1744–1812) and his sons had begun building the now famous finance house. What made their business unique was that Rothschild sent his five sons to open branches in the five busiest cities in Europe.

The first commercial banks appeared in the late 13th century in Italian towns like Siena. The word comes from banco – Italian for bench – since at first banking services were provided on benches at the town's centre. But banking does not begin with the Italian merchants – its origins lie with the Knights Templar, an order of warrior monks founded in 1096 to ensure the safe passage of European pilgrims heading to Jerusalem in the aftermath of the First Crusade.

Forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery — but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet.

James Madison's face is on the five-thousand-dollar bill. That's right, there's a five-thousand-dollar bill! Can you imagine going into a store to buy a candy bar and asking if they'll give you change for a five-thousand-dollar bill?

A penny saved is still just a fucking penny.

Grow fast, lose money, go public, get rich. That's the model.

The function of a financial system is to channel money from people who have it but want to save it to people who don't have it but want to spend it. ... In Ireland, as in most European countries, the banking system is the most important conduit for channelling money from savers to investors.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

These results stand in sharp contrast to the hype that microfinance has attracted in development policy circles. They throw cold water on models that suggest lack of access to finance is among the most important constraints that poor households face.

Many of our education, finance, and health regrets are actually different outward expressions of the same core regret: our failure to be responsible, conscientious, or prudent.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.