Quotes About Finance

What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This

magic circle of imperial capitalism: credit financed new discoveries; discoveries led to colonies; colonies provided profits; profits built trust; and trust translated into more credit.

Heavy taxation means that a large part of all available capital accumulated in one place – the state coffers – and consequently more and more decisions have to be made by a single processor, namely the government.

Throughout the eighteenth century the yield on slave-trade investments was about 6 per cent a year – they were extremely profitable, as any modern consultant would be quick to admit.

Wars not only make nations; they make bankers.

One year of the world's military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

He says: "The markets are simply information-processing machines, quickly incorporating all available news and expectations.

High fees only guarantee that more wealth will trickle up from your account to the pockets of your broker or advisor," says Ilijevski. "Fees and costs squander returns."

The markets are simply information-processing machines, quickly incorporating all available news and expectations.

What you spend, you save.

Business is other people's money.

Chase National Bank in New York

We're one corporate meltdown away from having the dollar be the peso's bitch.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

The schools are there to teach your kids to read, write, and add – skills they will need if they are going to apply for and wisely invest their unemployment checks one day.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

Yet the Government entered on its second year without a floating debt and with its credit unimpaired. The total expenditures of the first year, ending February 1, 1862, amounted to one hundred and seventy million dollars.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.