#finance

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case? ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#finance #love #money #sense #sincerity

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals? ↗

— Christina Applegate

#also #bunch #finances #freak #holidays

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #business #comfortable #competent #concerned

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#even #financial #honesty #honesty is #merchant

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. ↗

— William Feather

#about #another #astute #both #buys

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. ↗

— Barbara Feldon

#always #armor #exactly #financially #i

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#adverse #because #borrowing #competitive #countries

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#deficit #dependence #financial #funds #only

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#back #banks #completely #corporations #exclusively