Financial Pain Quotes

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain.

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going - they're below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren't going well for them.

We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the pain of paying. If you go to a restaurant and you are paying cash, you would feel much worse than if you were paying with credit card. Why? You know the price, there's no surprise, but if you're paying cash, you feel a bit more guilt.

We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doesn't crack down, this party will be amazing - the biggest party in town for a long time. If they do crack down, a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . .

There's no enjoyment to losing money.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!