Finance Humor Quotes

#1. This is hard. This is fun.

Carol S. Dweck

#2. The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#4. Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling.

John Cage

#5. The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

Randall L. Stephenson

#6. If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board

Philippe Ries

#7. ( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)

Jess Walter

#8. She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.

Kate Chopin

#9. Live by the three 'F' rule: If they don't fuck you, feed you or finance you, they don't matter. - Maya Josephs, Prima of the Ridgeville Pride

Celia Kyle

#10. 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

#11. Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

Eyvind Kang

#12. There is no romance without finance.

John Fox

#13. Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they'll at least have something to keep them warm after they've lost all their money when the company goes under.

Amy Summers

#14. I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. After all, what does the stock market sell us if not the unfounded hope of a rosy future?

Haruki Murakami

#16. Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts

Paul Knott

#17. I've known a lot of people," Realm said. "Not many friends, though. Guess that happens when you're a liar, huh."
"We're all liars," James replied. "You're not that special.

Suzanne Young

#18. It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust