Quotes About Finance

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

When you're depressed, all it takes is one good conversation to make you feel like singing. It being payday helps too.

If you can barely afford the pregnancy test, then you definitely can't afford being positive.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

When Trump in 2006 suddenly paid more than $10 million in cash to buy a huge patch of land in northeast Scotland, his mother's native country, with the goal of building a golf resort, it wasn't clear where he had come up with the money to do so.

Of all our taxes, the best growth tax is personal income tax. And it's the largest, collecting $223 billion in 2018–19 compared to company tax at $94 billion or the GST at $66 billion.

My paycheck is so small it has an inferiority complex.

Timepass Buying and selling of shares in stock market is happening these days only amongst brokers and insiders because retail investors are hardly there as they have lost their interest despite seeing share price going up

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

I know where I'm putting my money.

Some gaps are caused because as the market approaches a level of support or resistance or a previous high or low, there will be an abnormally large number of stops just outside that area. When those stops get hit, it can cause a sharp move in the market, resulting in the gap.

All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Gérard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company.

When parties and elections are financed not by public funds but by private contributions, the political forum is so constrained by the wishes of the dominant interests that the basic measures needed to establish just constitutional rule are seldom properly presented.

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off.

Then crop failure, drought, and flood were no longer little deaths within life, but simple losses of money. And all their love was thinned with money, and all their fierceness dribbled away in interest until they were no longer farmers at all, but little shopkeepers of crops, little manufacturers who must sell before they can make.