Best Finance Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail.”

“If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.”

“It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity.”

“There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.”

“Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks.”

“It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever.”

“My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around.”

“Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge and underserve consumers.”

“The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.”

“In the past, liberals have competed to see who could shout the loudest to shut down the banks, ridicule success, and penalize anyone working in finance. In fact, the Occupy Wall Street movement was an aggressive liberal effort to shut down Wall Street banks.”

“You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.”

“The ECB puts out money that is meant to help our banks, but they do not use it to finance our businesses, but they give it to them to buy back their debt, to help French and German banks.”

“The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.”

“The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think the financial world there has been - I don't know if it's by design, or this is how it's evolved - there are bad actors who have wanted to obfuscate because you can benefit from the lack of transparency.”

“If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.”

“I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?”

“The blockchain is a distributed network that solves all the problems that we have of finance, but more broadly, it's like a philosophy. It's a way of life.”

“People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.”

“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.”

“You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.”

“If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.”

“Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.”

“George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.”

“New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.”

“I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.”

“The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.”

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

“I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.'”

“It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.”

“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”

“From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.”

“I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.”

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”

“I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.”

“The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change.”

“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”

“If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings.”

“I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.”

“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”

“You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.”

“The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.”

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

“In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.”

“In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators.”

“Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.”

“Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.”

“World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore.”

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.”

“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.”

“Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.”

“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”

“The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.”

“It's hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications.”

“There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.”

“Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.”

“I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.”

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

“The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.”

“Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.”

“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

“People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.”

“When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks.”

“We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.”

“Rupee fluctuation is not so significant compared with the other currencies. Fluctuations in currencies has been fairly steady. As the finance minister often says, fluctuation is the new normal.”

“Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.”

“I made my money by selling too soon.”

“I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.”

“Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.”

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

“In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality.”

“I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks.”

“There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.”

“There is a misperception among job seekers that opportunities for women in tech exist only for those with coding or engineering experience. To be sure, technology firms do need women with these skills, but they also need women with expertise in other areas, like marketing and finance.”

“I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act.”

“I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.”

“Inflation is not an abstract idea thrown around by finance gurus. Inflation is a very real threat to the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans throughout our great country.”

“Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.”

“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”

“If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?”

“The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.”

“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”

“There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.”

“As technology progresses, I believe that fintech will fundamentally change finance.”

“Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.”

“I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.”

“My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it.”

“We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.”

“Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.”

“I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally.”

“Watch your finances like a hawk.”

“I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.”

“I studied finance and was a topper.”

“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”

“One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.”

“Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.”

“Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.”

“I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.”

“After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.”

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

“Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.”