Honore de Balzac Quotes

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

I have always been afraid of banks.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.

I don’t know anything about money.

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.

Money is a hazard.

I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.