Top 100 Finance Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best finance quotes ever written, picked out of the full finance archive on QuoteForever. You will find Merton Miller, Honore De Balzac, Milton Friedman and Richard Wagner among them.

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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

2

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

3

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

4

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

5

In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.

6

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

7

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

8

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

9

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.

10

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

11

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

12

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

13

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

14

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

15

The right wants to destroy the power of the Fed to increase the power of finance; and the progressives want to reorient the Fed so that it will stop protecting the interests of finance and protect the interests of the broader population instead.

16

Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

17

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

18

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.

19

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

20

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

21

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

22

Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

23

Form follows finances instead of function.

24

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

25

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

26

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

27

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

28

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

29

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

30

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

31

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

32

I understand that finance can be very complex.

33

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

34

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

35

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

36

When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

37

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

38

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

39

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

40

Short-term can be terminal.

41

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.

42

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

43

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

44

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

45

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

46

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

47

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

48

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

49

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

50

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

51

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

52

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

53

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

54

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

55

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

56

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

57

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

58

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.

59

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

60

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

61

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

62

God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

63

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

64

When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

65

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

66

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

67

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

68

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

69

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.

70

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

71

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

72

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

73

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

74

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

75

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

76

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.

77

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.

78

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.

79

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

80

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

81

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

82

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

83

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

84

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

85

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

86

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.

87

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

88

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

89

Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

90

It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.

91

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.

92

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

93

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

94

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

95

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.

96

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

97

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

98

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

99

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.

100

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.

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