Financial Quotes

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Time is key to building your financial security.

~ Suze Orman

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

~ James Buchan

You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.

~ Christina Romer

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.

~ Jo Bonner

The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.

~ Ginni Rometty

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

~ Oswald Mosley

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.

~ Gordon Brown

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.

~ Leonard Cohen

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

~ Walt Disney

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

~ Sugata Mitra

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

~ Ciputra

In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.

~ David Petraeus

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

~ Ron Fournier

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

~ James Buchan

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

~ Warren Buffett

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

~ Muhammad Yunus

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

~ T. Harv Eker

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

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

~ Suze Orman

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

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

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

~ Scott Cook

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

~ Jules Renard

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

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

~ Mark Skousen

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

~ Cliff Richard

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

~ Martin Feldstein

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

~ Ron Lewis

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

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

~ Martin Cruz Smith

In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

~ Wang Shi

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

~ Ruth Handler

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

~ Saint Stephen

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

~ Maria Shriver

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

~ Robert Kiyosaki

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

~ Teri Garr

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

~ Jim Cooper