Financial Privacy Quotes

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.

Never let no one know how much dough you hold.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

Monero at a protocol level is very, very private and has that big advantage over bitcoin.

Wherever information gathers and flows, two predators follow closely behind it: censorship and surveillance. The case of digital money is no exception. Where money becomes a series of signals, it can be censored; where money becomes information, it will inform on you.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

I used to not talk much to anyone about my investments.

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. They're very worried about how people are going to react to what they say.

Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user's privacy beyond the reach of any authority.

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

The government has no business knowing how much money we make and how we made it. It's none of their business. And that's why I believe that manufacturing is critical. If we can't feed ourselves, fuel ourselves and fight for ourselves, we can't be free.

People often come up and tell me how much money I make in a year, which is funny because I don't think it's something I've ever said to someone.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.