Financial Experience Quotes

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.

I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

If anything, I would say the movies I've done have been very low paid. TV work and voice-overs have been more lucrative.

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.