Finance Quotes

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Regis Philbin

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Andrew Motion

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

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Andrew Card

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

Benjamin Franklin

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Barbara Feldon

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one and must be made prosperous.

Steve Maraboli

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

David Ricardo

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

Scott Cook

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

Susan Collins

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

Jules Renard

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

Jeffrey Sachs

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Andrew Lo

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

Joely Richardson

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

Mark Zandi

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Merton Miller

My adversary is the world of finance.

Francois Hollande

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

John Hurt

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Charles Baudelaire