Quotes About Finance

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

The jigsaw puzzle of life is made easier through Financial Literacy.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

risk, reward, control, and capital.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.

The burden of student loan debt weighs heavily on both students and families across New Jersey.

There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.

There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that must be constantly weighed.

Addressing budget issues is usually a balancing act in which cuts are weighed against revenue increases to find the best solution for the state.

We should make it very clear to Saudi Aramco and others who want to list in London that they are very welcome but we aren't going to overly amend the rules just for one particular listing.

Of course I welcome all the normalization of monetary policy. I think monetary policy should be normal.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.