Finance Quotes
“In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.”
“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