Financial Quotes - Page 5

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.