#finance

A company could use bricks to measure their growth rate. How many bricks have angry investors thrown at you lately? If the answer is none, then your growth rate is probably pretty good… for the moment. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #finance #finance-humor

Money is the last taboo. People will talk about their sex lives before they discuss their finances. ↗

— Marvin H. McIntyre

#money #sex #money

Money was a problem. Money was always a problem no matter how many bones he crushed or how much blood he let or dues he paid. The fucking rent was always due. ↗

— Laird Barron

#money

The first rule in making money is not to lose it. ↗

— Steven J. Lee

#money #wealth #money

Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now. ↗

— Steven J. Lee

#money #wealth #money

Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#money #money-management #personal-finance #money

Leverage is a term that makes us sound very sophisticated and wise when we use it. Let’s analyze what it really means. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#finance #money #rabbi-celso #money

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

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#age

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