Finance Quotes

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

All money is a matter of belief.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.