finance quotations

love, money, fame, truth

2009-08-21T11:21:00.000-07:00

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

-- Henry David Thoreau

2009-06-01T04:16:00.000-07:00

I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.
- Clinton Jones

2009-05-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

"My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil."
- John Paul Getty

2009-05-08T12:36:00.001-07:00

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
- Michael Pritchard

2009-05-06T14:08:00.001-07:00

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff

2009-05-04T15:29:00.000-07:00

The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.
Takafumi Horie

2009-04-30T14:02:00.000-07:00

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education--literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan

2009-04-28T06:42:00.000-07:00

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

2009-04-24T14:21:00.000-07:00

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan

2009-04-23T15:20:00.000-07:00

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making.
Alan Greenspan

2009-04-21T13:09:00.000-07:00

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.
Bill Gates

2009-04-19T12:44:00.000-07:00

Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990’s. But recently he’s fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity causes inflation. So they’re trying to slow the economy down by raising interest rates. It’s like a doctor saying you’re in great health, so we have to make you sick a little bit. It’s a bizarre theory. It’s going to hurt our economy.
Steve Forbes

2009-04-17T11:21:00.001-07:00

2009-04-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

There’s no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
Ben Bernanke

2009-04-16T16:17:00.000-07:00

I believe that I was lucky to have suffered. Some people don’t realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.. politically, financially, socially or otherwise.. and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better..
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

2009-04-16T16:16:00.000-07:00

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it’s all of us.
David Bach

2009-04-15T16:21:00.000-07:00

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
David Bach

2009-04-15T15:53:00.000-07:00

The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.
Ben Bernanke

2009-04-15T15:40:00.001-07:00

The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.
Ben Bernanke