Finance Quotes

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

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.