Financial famous quotes
04-23-2025
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The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.
-- Adam LaVorgna -
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
-- Alan Greenspan -
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
-- Alan Greenspan -
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
-- Alan Shepard -
A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
-- Allen Klein -
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
-- Andrew Lo -
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
-- Andrew Mellon -
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
-- Ann Macbeth -
Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.
-- Ann Romney -
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
-- Arthur Helps -
College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
-- Barbara Mikulski -
These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis,
-- Barney Frank -
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
-- Ben Bernanke -
The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
-- Ben Bernanke -
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,
-- Ben Bernanke -
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
-- Ben Bernanke -
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
-- Ben Bernanke -
The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
-- Ben Bernanke -
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
-- Bill Delahunt -
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
-- Bill Gross -
I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.
-- Bob Corker -
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
-- Brad Feld -
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit
-- Brian De Palma -
Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
-- Brian Tracy -
Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.
-- Brian Tracy -
When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.
-- Carly Fiorina -
All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.
-- Catherine Ponder -
Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.
-- Charles M. Vest -
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
-- Charlie Byrd -
The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
-- Christine Lagarde -
Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.
-- Cliff Richard -
The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.
-- Clive Owen -
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
Remember, there's ultimately only one way to financial peace, and that's to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.
-- Dave Ramsey -
Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
-- David Bach -
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
-- David Harvey -
I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.
-- Daymond John -
You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.
-- Derrick Jensen -
I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
-- DJ Qualls -
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
-- Duke Ellington -
The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.
-- Edward Kennedy -
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
I want to give producers more financial security.
-- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley -
Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power
-- F. William Engdahl -
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
-- Francis M. Lyman -
I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.
-- Fred Hoyle -
The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.
-- Gene Simmons -
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
-- George Meany -
I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
-- George Osborne -
I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
-- George Osborne -
Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.
-- George S. Clason -
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
-- George Soros -
We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.
-- Gerard Arpey -
Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing,
-- Goodluck Jonathan -
Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.
-- Gordon Wu -
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.
-- Graydon Carter -
The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.
-- Greg Gilbert -
The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
-- Gwen Stefani -
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
-- Henry Paulson -
An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
-- Henry Paulson -
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
-- Henry Paulson -
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
-- Henry Paulson -
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
-- Iain Duncan Smith -
I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.
-- J. Robbins -
Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
-- Jack Ma -
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.
-- James Buchan -
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
-- James Buchan -
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
-- James C. Collins -
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.
-- James Surowiecki -
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn -
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
-- Javier Bardem -
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.
-- Jean-Claude Juncker -
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
-- Jean-Claude Juncker -
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
-- Jeff Koons -
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
-- Jeremy Grantham -
There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . .
-- Jeremy Grantham -
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
-- Jerome Isaac Friedman -
I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.
-- Jerry Doyle -
Living above your means is financial sin.
-- Jesse Jackson, Jr. -
I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.
-- Jim Blasingame -
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
