Finance Quotes

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏

Rich men hold their secrets close to their chest and share among themselves only. I am not afraid to share my secrets to poor people because I know most of them will not use it

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’, my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’, my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.

If you're in 'HELL', you're in a bank.If you're in 'HEAVEN', you're on the other side of the counter.Signed....A Goldman Sachs Representative

You actions are your only true belongings.

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), you must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do..hard work and perseverance of highest order.

Employment deprives you of purpose

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life

If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board

[Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.

Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.

If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.

...there should be no place in a portfolio for hedge funds. There are lots of reasons, but the main one is simple: Investing in hedge funds is a great way to increase the odds of underperformance.

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.

NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Your dreams are closer than you think.

Don't take on more student loans than your future-self can handle.

At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.

You should never be satisfied with a little if you are capable of using and enjoying more.

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts

There is no romance without finance.

Leverage is a term that makes us sound very sophisticated and wise when we use it. Let’s analyze what it really means.

Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under.

I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don’t have.

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

SHIT, OR GET OFF THE POT

Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful- used wrong, it makes a mess!

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.

God is looking for godly people to send to the world of finances to subdue it for him.

Get into Investment Banking

Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.