Financial Analogy Quotes

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

Geological time is not money.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.