Quotes About Finance

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel:

Chapter Three Habit 3: Thoughtless Spending

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Geithner went to the well-connected investment bank Warburg Pincus. Bernanke advises the Citadel hedge fund and chaired an advisory board for the giant PIMCO bond fund, owned by Allianz of Germany, which also included as its members Jean-Claude Trichet and Gordon Brown as well as Anne-Marie Slaughter of the Obama foreign policy team.34 It was like a mini reunion of 2008 crisis fighters.

I want today once again to make a prophecy: if the international Jewish financiers within and without Europe succeed once more in plunging the nations into another world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the world and with it a victory for Judaism. The result will be the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe.

Once again I will be a prophet: should the international Jewry of finance (Finanzjudentum) succeed, both within and beyond Europe, in plunging mankind into yet another world war, then the result will not be a Bolshevization of the earth and the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation (Vernichtung) of the Jewish race in Europe. Thus, the days of propagandist impotence of the non Jewish peoples are over. Adolf Hitler - address to the Reichstag Berlin, January 30, 1939

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

I don't get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

I'm a very passive investor.

There are no patents in finance.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

The research indicates that when we women invest, we women do tend to be more patient, take a longer-term perspective and as a result of it, tend to be better investors than men. But the messages we get are that investing is sort of 'the guys' world.'

Patriots don't let their nation default.

It's like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.

If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

We will pay the debts by growing and exporting... The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.