Quotes About Finance

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

When whiskey was supposed to be taxed at $2 a gallon and sold for $1.25 a gallon, it did not take advanced math to guess something was amiss.

What you do with your body sets the tone for everything else. Physical health influences your mental health, your spiritual health, your emotional health, your relational health, and even your financial health.

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork.

Mike parecía más confiado. Sabía que podía cubrir cualquier suma que Pratt propusiera.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Budget the luxuries first.

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law.

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity.

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits;

Seems a funny way to run things. But of course I've never paid taxes." "You just think you haven't. You started the day you were born. We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we'll ever eliminate taxes.

Condoize them for me, and I'd have income for

There was no way to tell, looking at me, that I only had $387 in the bank. Three-piece

He left ICM last year to start his own talent agency and things just haven't gone the way they should. He's had to worry about the house payments and the cars and schools.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

Peabody believed that in the long run, American investments meant sound investments.

Instead of being described in the investment banking section, J.P. Morgan could as easily have been included in this section, as the last of the Dinosaurs, and perhaps the greatest and most powerful of them all.

Mayer Rothschild created a financial dynasty that grew to finance the development of western civilization. Because of Rothschild and the banking house he built with his five sons, money flowed throughout Europe with ease, enabling the industrial revolution to take place and lift Europe from the dark ages.

Back then, being a pawnbroker-merchant was one of the only career options available to Jews. Thanks to a papal decree centuries earlier, usury laws forbade Christians from lending for profit. So Jews took over the moneylending trades, becoming pawnbrokers, small trade merchants, and wizards of finance.

The obvious never moves markets; surprises almost always do.

harting the rise of Lehman Brothers, one of Wall Street's greatest investment banking houses, essentially traces the gradual emergence of a powerful, industrial United States. Beginning as cotton brokers in an agricultural society, the first Lehmans to arrive in America helped finance the Confederacy during the Civil War, and then turned to Wall Street to dabble in commodities well into the 1900s.

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are.