"Work while they sleep. Learn while they party. Save while they spend. Live like they dream" are motivational lines that have been printed on many images. The saying has been cited in…
"Worry -- interest paid on trouble before it falls due" has been cited in print since at least March 1906. The saying is often credited to English author William Ralph Inge (1860-1954),…
For many people, paying off a credit card is a great feeling -- even better than sex. "Yeah sex is cool but have you ever paid off your entire credit card?" was posted on X/Twitter by…
Art Rust., Jr. signed off his WABC (New York City) sports talk radio show with: "Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is just a promissory note. Today is the only time we have so spend it…
A finance-themed pick-up line is: "Yo girl, are you a zero APR loan? Because I don't really understand your terms and you keep saying you have no interest." The joke was posted by…
"You are not a loan" (a pun on "you are not alone") was painted on a business sign and printed in the Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) on May 24, 1998. "You are not a…
"You can borrow for college, but not for retirement" is popular family financial advice. A family can borrow for a child's education, and the child's future earnings can pay off…
Lignin is a complex polymer derived from wood. Lignin can be used to make many products -- at great cost, however. Science has attempted new solutions to bring the cost of lignin down so that its…
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime” is a popular proverb. "Give a man a gun and he'll rob a bank. Give a man a bank…
"You can run into debt, but you have to crawl out" is a jocular saying with a long history. "People 'run' into debt; but, sometimes, they 'crawl out of it'"…
"You can take that to the bank and smoke it!" is a combination of the sayings "take it to the bank" (a sure thing) and "put that in your pipe and smoke it" (said after…
"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it" is a one-line saying that has been printed on many images. New York-based stand-up comedian Henny Youngman (1906-1998) is usually…
"You can't eat gold/silver" is a saying that dates in print to at least 1870. In 1897, a Klondike gold prospector advised a friend that "you can't eat gold dust." Many…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Google BooksThe Day Trader's Manual: Theory, Art, and Science of Profitable Short-Term InvestingBy William F. EngNew York, NY: Wiley1993Pg. 42:Short option positions…
"Relative performance" is how some security or other investment vehicle does against an index (for example, the Dow Jones index). "Relative performance" doesn't help much…
"You can't keep a good man down" is a popular saying from the 1880s. "'You can't keep a good market down.' some gleeful broker is alleged to have written on a…
"You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree" has been attributed to American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) since at least the 1980s, but there's no…
Pulling a string is easy; pushing a string is difficult, with the string quickly losing its straightness. The term "pushing (on) a string" has been cited in print since at least 1910. In…
Wall Street stock investor Peter Lynch wrote "Peter's Principle #4" in his book Beating the Street (1993): "You can't see the future through a rear view mirror." This…
The business information company, Dun & Bradstreet, issued a 1949 poster of an old peddler with the slogan, "You Can't Do Business from an Empty Wagon." The saying (also popular…