Quotes About Finance

There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds.

A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.

One of my first big paychecks, I used it to buy a Rolex. I bought a used 1968 vintage Rolex. I was too cheap to buy a new one.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped. No government will ever support a virtual currency that goes around borders and doesn't have the same controls. It's not going to happen.

Argentina is in a virtual, hidden default.

You can hold your Bitcoin in Ripple. We want to be agnostic to any currency, whether that be a virtual currency, political currencies, or peer-to-peer currencies.

I would like to implore all the governments of the world to come together to form a protocol to regulate virtual currency.

From what little is known of Mr. Trump's tax returns, he used losses to offset virtually all of his taxable income for years by generating something called net operating loss carry-overs.

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to museums. As people conduct their financial transactions on hand-held devices made secure by advanced biometrics, even tipping will be done electronically.

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

Investing is a virtuous habit best started as early as possible.

We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us - who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly what we spend and where we spent it... so they're looking at ways to unlock it.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

I carry cash around with me all the time as I like buying dancers I'm working with snacks and drinks, but I also use my Amex card and a Coutts Visa card, which I always pay off in full every month. I hate the idea of being in debt.

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

PM Narendra Modi had promised to bring back black money, which he said could put Rs 15 lakh in each of our pockets. If he wants to repair his damaged credibility in this regard, we need to see swift and visible action on the Panama Papers.

The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

envisioning System/360 was one thing. Making it a reality required the equivalent of a man-on-the-moon program. It cost nearly as much. Tom Watson's memoir noted that the investment required—$5 billion (that's 1960s dollars!)—was larger than what the Manhattan Project cost.

Notre plus grande erreur fut de n'avoir pas planté le pieu au cœur du vampire : la finance.