Quotes About Finance

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming.

I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

One of the hardest things to do is to get capital. That's where we, as black business, struggles. And the other place we struggle is scale, and because we don't have an access to capital, we cannot scale.

I am advocating a weak yen to a certain extent.

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The pitch that works best in tough economic times is, 'I can do that for less.'

Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.

Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.

We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.