Quotes About Finance

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

capital, having considerably more liquidity than water, slid

I'm told finance doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed. So it's more just advanced programming

It's a stealth tax imposed on the exchanges by high-frequency trading, by the cloud itself. A rent.

bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.

the way bubbles work is structurally identical to Ponzi schemes—what a coincidence!—and indeed it's another amazing coincidence how much the entire capitalist economy resembles in its basic structure either a Ponzi scheme or a bundle of Ponzi schemes.

Because when the crash comes, the government needs to nationalize the banks. No more bailing them out and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. You

Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.

I prefer to call it fiscal decapitation.

So no, Serena couldn't and wouldn't settle for just any man, and if she could help it, she would, with no exceptions, marry the man of her dreams. A man who was well-educated and one who could financially bring to the table as much as she did. In particular, a man like Tim, who was chief financial officer for a large insurance company. And if God answered all Serena's prayers, her future husband would ultimately be able to provide

The picture is perfectly clear: the entire economy is fueled not by profit, not by production, but by debt. Debt, moreover, that no one is working on paying back and that everyone needs to believe—this is the pipe dream that sustains the whole charade—will certainly be paid by future generations.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

People who don't respect money don't have any.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

today a country's credit rating is far more important to its economic well-being than are its natural resources.

The sum total of money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet the sum total of coins and banknotes is less than $6 trillion.7 More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers.