Quotes About Finance

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

If you dont need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations are not there in the same way.

Whenever land is bought and sold, three stakeholders automatically vie for a cut from the revenue that can be had from land: the community, the property owner, and the institutions that finance property ownership. With land-use rights, the revenue from land value increases is primarily recycled back to the community rather than captured by banks and property owners.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

A recent study by two York University researchers found that Big Pharma spends nearly twice as much on promotion and advertising as it does on research and development.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Look after the pennies, and the pounds always looked after themselves.

Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.

Then as now, the easiest tactic for a government trying to reduce the pension bill was to raise the pension age.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself. - Warren Buffett

Mary Buffett

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A