Quotes About Finance

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

Diversify your investments.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

I know where I'm putting my money.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money "blueprint" isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.