Finance Quotes

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.