Quotes About Finance

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.

My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.'

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

I was a bank teller. That was a great job. I was bringing home $450,000 a week.