Finance Quotes - Page 4

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.

Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product

Fulfillment is the essence of our existence

You can create any product from time

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Wisdom is the result of time well spent

You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone

We need to pay as much attention to the MEANS, as to the END! This is the biggest principle of SUCCESS..The END is so enticing, that we lose sight of the details altogether..Success lies in the DETAILS!

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

To work (at a job) is to sacrifice the life you have at the moment

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially

Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.

For you to be successful in your promised land, you must study the land

When you invest in life, you are being fruitful and productive

There is ample evidence that confirmation bias permeates throughout investors' decisions. For example, once an investor likes a stock, he is likely to seek out information that validates that stock. In a 2010 study, researchers showed that investors used message boards to seek out information that validated rather than challenged, stocks they owned (Park et al. 2010). If we own a stock, we tend to look for anything that validates our decision to buy it, and to reinforce why we should keep holding it.

Trader has to reverse what you might call his natural impulses. Instead of hoping he must fear; instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

You can only gain the benefit of something when you invest and spend time

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 a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory.

One peek inside his top drawer had been enough for Sophie. Swimming goggles, nail clippers, a Ferragamo tie wound into a tight coil, and packets of Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard. None of that compared to Ira Blumenstein's gold tooth, Kenneth Yang's Darth Vader lollipop, or Rich Angstrom's Magic 8 Ball.

Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Losing your job gives you access to time

Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives

Life is the totality of time

Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.

Time lost can never be regained

Don’t just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ

Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days

Joblessness releases you from the world system

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

Never give up just because you failed initially

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 see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.

Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.

If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed

Never allow a minute to pass without asking yourself what you did with the time

Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life

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

The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God

Our actions as believers should be extensive and comprehensive

The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs

Everything good you see is a product of time well spent

Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence

If you can survive and won the battle over other millions of semen deposited alongside with you in your mothers womb, tell me why you cannot win the battle over challenges, difficulties and poverty? Friend, I know you will succeed because; you'd once done it in the womb.

The reason for what a certain stock does today may not be known for two or three days, or weeks, or months. But what the dickens does that matter? Your business with the tape is now - not tomorrow! The reason can wait. But you must act instantly or be left.

When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism

Gold belongs only in the portfolios of fearmongers and speculators. If you own gold in your portfolio, expect to not get paid an income, pay higher taxes on your returns, take a more volatile ride than the stock market, and get a long-term return lower than bonds.

Don’t be too engrossed with things of the world discover your purpose in life

The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us

We were built differently. Locate your own uniqueness

Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God’s purpose for your life

Losing your job gives you time

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

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 the future, a short-termism which has systematically, and not accidentally, been translated into decomposition of investment into speculation.

Time is the essence of life