Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high. ”

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up. ”

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. ”

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013. ”

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it. ”

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. ”

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. ”

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. ”

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. ”

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns. ”