Financial Fear Quotes

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

I'm not afraid of having big banks.

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.

There will be no repetition of the break yesterday …. I have no fear of another comparable decline.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.

Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

We need banking. I mean, right now, there are so many places in America where the banks are not doing what they need to do because they're scared of regulations, they're scared of the other shoe dropping, they're just plain scared,so credit is not flowing the way it needs to to restart economic growth.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

I am scared of running out of money.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.