Finance Quotes

“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

“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”

-- Jim Rohn

“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”

-- Mario Puzo

“I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.”

-- Paul M. Glaser

“You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.”

-- Merton Miller

“I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.”

-- Mathias Rust

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”

-- John Maynard Keynes

“Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.”

-- Suze Orman

“The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.”

-- Mark Cuban

“It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.”

-- Mark Rydell