Finance Quotes

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

~ Niall Ferguson

There is much more to wealth than simply a bank account with many zeros. A well-balanced, whole life is made up of wealth and success that comes from many facets; family, friends, work, faith, it is the complete person who works on each of these areas and creates the whole

~ Celso Cukierkorn

I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don’t have.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under.

~ Amy Sommers

Leverage is a term that makes us sound very sophisticated and wise when we use it. Let’s analyze what it really means.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

A company could use bricks to measure their growth rate. How many bricks have angry investors thrown at you lately? If the answer is none, then your growth rate is probably pretty good… for the moment.

~ Amy Sommers

As a rabbi, I’ve spent long hours counseling people I’ve married, and in each case I like to talk with the couple about not only compatibility and love, but also their relationship with money. If you and your partner are not in the same financial mind-frame, then chances are your marriage won’t work. You can’t be an army of one when you are married. Financial problems are the number one cause of divorce.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

There is no romance without finance.

~ John Fox

My people have more know-how in dealing with money than any other people on earth. It is not just a stereotype. I have traveled the world, and everywhere I go, Jews are always represented within the wealthiest sector of people in their countries. During the last 2,000 years, Jews have been expelled or turned away from almost every country in the world, but over and over again, they have been able to re-settle, start from nothing, and build significant wealth in new lands.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building in an area of San Paulo that eventually became one of the largest wholesale neighborhoods in the world. When my grandfather passed away, he left millions of dollars to my family as an inheritance. That inheritance, however, would have been worthless if he had not also given us his legacy of personal responsibility and work ethic. My grandfather refused to be defined by others, therefore setting not only the value of his product, but also of himself and his family.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts

~ Paul Knott

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

~ Hillary Clinton

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

~ Robin Leach

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

~ Morrissey

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

~ Billie Jean King

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

~ Richard Branson

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

~ Nolan Bushnell

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

~ Suze Orman

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.

~ Alan Greenspan

My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around.

~ Whit Stillman

What I'm primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don't do.

~ Roustam Tariko

We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.

~ Lowell Mcadam

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

~ Dave Ramsey

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

~ Hassanal Bolkiah

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Tommy Hilfiger

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

~ Henry Ford

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

~ Daymond John

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.

~ Richard Armitage

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

~ Mark Cuban

By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries.

~ Steve Jurvetson

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

~ Herbert Hoover

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

~ Angela Merkel

Money is the best rule of commerce.

~ William Petty

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

~ Ben Bernanke

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

~ Dave Ramsey

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

~ Ken Robinson