Financial Strategy Quotes

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.

The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

I've been buying real estate because it's an asset I can control, that I could finance extremely cheaply if I chose to. I do not choose to; I buy my real estate in cash. I'm not interested in making money on it. I just want to keep my money safe.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

I never buy a house thinking that I'm going to sell it.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

United spent $1.2 billion repurchasing shares in 2015 and plans to spend $1.5 billion on share repurchases in the first quarter of 2016. We have a lot of positive momentum, but this is just the beginning.

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

I never believed that one big bill is the way to go.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new economic team. You know what he should do? Hire those people who were in charge of his fundraising campaign. We can pay this thing off in like a week.