Finance quotes and sayings

Adam Smith motivational quote : All money is a matter of belief.

When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance. Gita Gopinath

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance. Brandon Stanton

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world. Lynn Jurich

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. Ron Lewis

John Paul Stevens

Governments around the world are looking for economic growth and job creation. African economies are no exception, with increasing recognition that growth has to be built on a more diversified economic structure in order to make a lasting contribution to development. Arancha Gonzalez

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. Mark Skousen

As technology progresses, I believe that fintech will fundamentally change finance. Taavet Hinrikus

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do. Penelope Spheeris

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing. Brianna Wu

It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity. Marianne Lake

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation. Alec Baldwin

Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks. Jo Cox

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. Merton Miller

Jean-Paul Sartre

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. William Greider

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

I understand that finance can be very complex. Kevin Harrington

If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that. Najib Razak

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. George Soros

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple. Aaron Patzer

Max Keiser

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances. Alexa Von Tobel

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. James Chanos

It's hard to have any idea of how much money is enough to finance an appropriate lifestyle in retirement. But if a lump sum is translated into a monthly income, it's much easier to determine whether you have enough put away to afford to stop working. Richard Thaler

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show. David Blunkett

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from. Geoffrey West

My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it. Beppe Grillo

If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings. Eugene Fama

I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance. Neil Burger

I've been a pain in the rear for the Republican Party, and if I were to continue to be involved in the Democratic Party, I will continue to be a pain in the rear on campaign finance, health care, the environment. I'm not interested in party loyalty issues. Richard Painter

Geoff Mulgan

Rupee fluctuation is not so significant compared with the other currencies. Fluctuations in currencies has been fairly steady. As the finance minister often says, fluctuation is the new normal. Nirmala Sitharaman

I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life - you know, if you go into a shop, or you're talking about finance. Liz Truss

Watch your finances like a hawk. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career. Sal Khan

Maria Bartiromo

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world. Jose Angel Gurria

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. Will Smith

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. Marc Faber

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

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. Steve Israel

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest. Adam Cohen

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

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Tyra Banks

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it. James Altucher

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. Francois Englert

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. Barbara Feldon

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. James Buchan

I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.'. Debra Granik

Daymond John

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today. Gray Davis

I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally. John Morrison

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. Merton Miller

I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor. Subramanian Swamy

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

We want for everyone to be treated with dignity and respect in any situation. And so we've been thinking about how do we use our platform to empower women. More than half of our hosts are women, and many are using the extra income to start their own businesses. Belinda Johnson

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. Wendy Kopp

I don't expect people to feel sorry for me. My teammates get more upset about the criticism and booing than I do. Alex Rodriguez

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power. Charlie Munger

Merton Miller

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product. Carol Bartz

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone. Jack Ma

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system. Hillary Clinton

My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter. Will Poulter

A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. Ruben Hinojosa

Andrew Carnegie

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend. Rachel Kushner

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. Francois Hollande

World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore. Max Keiser

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance. Steven Burd

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film. Lee Grant

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day. Zephyr Teachout

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune. Andrew Tobias

Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world. Ross Levinsohn

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. Elena Kagan

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. Bille August

Walter Annenberg

We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance. Ron Williams

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. John Hurt

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. Saint Stephen

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. Alexander John Ellis

Suze Orman

As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century. Marcia Fudge

In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality. Ali Bongo Ondimba

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform. Patrick Murphy

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't. Huda Kattan

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances. Andy Williams

In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication. Peter Middlebrook

Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance. Max Keiser

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. Clayton M. Christensen

It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance. Kenneth C. Griffin

Christine Todd Whitman

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance. John Cullum

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all. Tim Ferriss

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

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

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