Finance Quotes
“The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.”
-- Alfred Marshall
“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.”
-- Martin Feldstein
“We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.”
-- Sherrod Brown
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
-- John D. Rockefeller
“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.”
-- Russell Baker
“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”
-- Milton Friedman
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
-- Albert Camus
“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”
-- Andrew Carnegie
“The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.”
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
-- Donald Trump
“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.”
-- Timothy Geithner
“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
“One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.”
-- William Feather
“You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.”
-- Nathan Fillion