Quotes About Finance

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Microcredit is about giving hope.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under.

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.

My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying, "Mrs. Cohen, your check came back." Mrs. Cohen answered, "So did my arthritis!"

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already.

If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board