Quotes About Finance

sit back and watch the money roll in.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.

The businessperson can therefore know the exact dollar profit on a product, but not the exact dollar value of the brand, the advertising, or, indeed, the quality of the product.

In 1980, the wage of a worker in the financial sector was roughly comparable to the wages of workers with the same qualifications in other sectors. By 2006, a person in the financial sector was making 70 percent more.

The nine largest banks, which received $125 billion from TARP, were collectively paying dividends of more than $25 billion a year.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world.

North of the Alps almost any Italians engaged in banking were indiscriminately called "Lombards," and Lombard Street was the center of the financial district of London.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.

I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember.

Billing was the lifeblood of the firm. Everything revolved around it.

Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes.

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

F&F's annual overhead was covered by collisions that happened less than one hundred yards away.

The taxpayers are getting screwed by Congress and the Department of Education.

He'd finished college with $60,000 in loans, and no job.

Three simple rules - pay less, diversify more and be contrarian - will serve almost everyone well.

An asset is worth what someone is willing to pay for it; and the value of an asset is the cash it will generate over its life.

Figure 1: The incidence of banking crises Source: Own calculations, based on the reported numbers of major bank failures in OECD economies, from Reinhart and Rogoff (2010)

People who applaud traders for providing liquidity to markets are often saying little more than that trading facilitates trading

Je suggère que tu mettes de côté une partie des sommes que tu investis à fonds perdus dans l'industrie des boissons alcooliques.

All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.