Quotes About Finance

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

Indeed, as subsequent events would show, debts, rather than deficits, make countries vulnerable in a monetary union.

the 2008 crisis is a textbook case for the theory of information

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

4. Buy less insurance

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

Capital punishment: The income tax.

Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills, and the dollar dropped six points on Wall Street.

Sounds too good to be true. How can you afford to give out that much cash?" "We're extremely well-funded.

So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

Everything we stand for can be expressed in terms of how we spend our money.

my first target would be the obscene amounts of money the federal government was making on student loans.

You cannot spend your way out of pain. But you can make every pain worse by trying to treat it with money.

The final selling price of $67,000 was less than Christensen had paid to have the ship built

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

Without Invest there is no interest.

Unfortunately, the weaker people are, the more they pay, and the stronger they are, the less they pay - when it comes to banking, commission and management fees, and in every area of our lives.