(…) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away...

We want to make sure we do this right and not rush through it. It won’t leave my Finance Committee $100 million out of balance.

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.

Proposition 98 is symptomatic of a whole maze of school finance laws that is immensely complicated,

[Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at the Wharton School, sees the year-long sell-off as a rational response to fast-weakening corporate profits. And he says the worst may not be over.] I don’t think (tech...

I was convinced that I was totally incompetent in predicting market prices – but that others were generally incompetent also but did not know it, or did not know they were taking massive risks. Most...

Life is like one big blueprint, if you don’t make plans then your future will not be built

Finance and economic research has hit a wall. We can’t answer any more questions by running another regression analysis. Now, we need to get inside the brain to understand why people make decisions.

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

You don’t have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.

Price ain’t merely about numbers. It’s a satisfying sacrifice.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we’re gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

I’m heartened to know that our partners are doing their bit to keep the home mortgage finance pipeline opened so we can accelerate the recovery in . . . these devastated communities,

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are ‘ronin’ (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for...

In life’s journey, having the ability to predict the future gives us an unfair advantage. If we can understand the laws of cause and effect, anyone can predict the future. What we do today leads...

We have called on enterprises with big resources in terms of production as well as finance to join the case.

We begged, borrowed and stole $40,000 to finance the project.

It reads very clearly to me that the Ministry of Finance has done the homework and ready for implementation.

Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,my generation is saying this is my house I pay...

To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), you must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do..hard work and perseverance of highest order.

Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, was real; it was only the debt within the financial sector that was imaginary. It was only the people...

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we have been led by a consumerism intrinsically destructive of all genuine investment in...

Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this.

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people...

…If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model – Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out...

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

We treat corporate governance and compliance very seriously at Scotia. In relation to the audited account, our finance department works closely with auditors to ensure that all reporting deadlines are met.

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Nippon Sheet Glass would have to raise money much larger than its market cap to finance the deal, and if you think about that, what they are doing is reckless.

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

It must be made very clear, we are not going to transfer funds which could finance terrorist attacks against our civilians.

You do pay a price for your Financial Freedom, but it is far lesser than what you pay for a Lifetime Slavery.

Despite cheap-shot attempts to suggest he is not supportive of campaign finance legislation, the fact is that Al Gore was there for reform from the time of McCain-Feingold and before, every single time.

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the...

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

We are programmed to succeed from birth but we deprogram ourselves with beliefs

The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned the confidence and optimism of the 1920s – poor distribution of...

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies...

This is an end run around the campaign finance laws. It does away with the contribution limits and it avoids disclosure, and it’s a way for the special interests who are supporting him to buy...

Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely stressed out about this. Every month, more interest would be added to her debts.To deal with...

If you’re perpetually broke, you should be working hard at overcoming stupidity and not getting rich.