Finance Quotes

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit

I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

Your processes are amazingly fast, yet flexible, and the people at Screaming Circuits, from finance to the factory floor, are all knowledgeable and a joy to work with.

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.