Quotes About Finance

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.

I guess whenever I'm in the paper, it's dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises - and saying we have to tackle these problems.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt.

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Taiwan is a major economy.

I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.

All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

Many of the things that we take for granted around the table, like cashing a check or just paying a bill or sending money to somebody you love, is very time consuming.

In 2015, I signed the no-fossil-fuel-money pledge and I have never taken a dime from that industry, or ever will.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.