T. S. Eliot Quotes

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

Entry-level jobs are excellent opportunites to educate young women about the realities of the financial world and can prepare them for the next move up within the firm or another area of the financial industry.

I write about banking because it is something I'm familiar with. Also, I don't have to do much research on it.

If you want to learn about money, learn from somebody who has a lot of it.

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.

It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.