Financial Change Quotes

Had it not been for the groundswell of support by the people of India, we would not have seen such a huge exercise of demonetisation bounce off without a single riot or a single law and order issue.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

The problem started before World War I. The gold standard was working fairly well. But it broke down because of the war and what happened in the 1920s. And then the U.S. started to become so dominant in the world, with the dollar becoming the central currency after the 1930s, the whole world economy shifted.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

We survived for hundreds of years under the old banking structure. You'd have clearing banks, then merchant banks doing the racy stuff, and then building societies where you'd join a waiting list for a mortgage. But then banks started buying stockbrokers, doing mortgages, and you ended up with these big banking groups doing everything.

Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not!

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

I've always been into fashion, I just couldn't afford it before.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

I lived job-to-job before 'Magic Mike.' It certainly has meant a lot to me from a financial standpoint.

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.

Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them.

I was on subsidized housing for many years before my financial situation changed. I quickly found myself in a new economic structure and, frankly, knew little about how to handle my money.

We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.

When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

New money is something fun to celebrate if you never had it.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

How can I go from this poor college kid one day and the next day get a check for $7 million. How's that going to affect me?

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.