Quotes About Finance

AL QAEDA SPENT ABOUT $500,000 TO PRODUCE 9/11, WHEREAS THE direct losses of that day's destruction plus the costs of the American response to the attacks were $3.3 trillion. In other words, for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks, the United States spent $7 million.1 The costs of 9/11 equal one-fifth of the US national debt. In 2006, Hezbollah fired a precision-guided cruise missile at an Israeli ship

Like some kind of migratory bird, money has long had special places to go when it wishes to reproduce in peace.

With their ability to move billions of dollars at the speed of light away from a country whose economic policies they distrust, hedge funds are just one of the many financial institutions whose

debts now-a-days are like children, begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain.

Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Disinvestment has put economy in bad shape.

A market boom based entirely on capital gains is merely a form of pyramid selling.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Housing goes hand-in-hand with renting and when I mention the word rent you already know that taxation is involved too.

Money is associated with numbers, but the numbers themselves are not. Even gold is still money.

Nothing is more beautiful than an investment. Earn money while you sleep. At the same time, you should be prepared to deal with any loss or risk that may arise along the way.

Paper money cheats, the real value lies in owning gold.

The dollar bill is above many other currencies. In other words, paper is more valuable than silver and gold.

Too much government tax erases all the truth and trust left in a businessman's head and heart.

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.

Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

A] Harvard University study [showed] that, on average, about 22 percent of what you pay for any consumer item or service represents the embedded costs in that item—that is, the embedded costs of our current tax system. Taxes, like some other similarly offensive substances, roll downhill, and you the consumer are standing at the bottom.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. —Herman Wouk

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you've got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.