Finance Quotes and Sayings
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. Honore de Balzac
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I made my money by selling too soon. Bernard Baruch
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire
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As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. Bo Bennett
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Andrew Carnegie
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Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. Thomas Carper
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Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. Scott Cook
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. Clarence Day
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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
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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. Alexander John Ellis
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus
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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
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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
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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
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. Irving Fisher
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Milton Friedman
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Inflation is taxation without legislation. Milton Friedman
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith
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Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Greer Garson
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. Alan Greenspan
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Alan Greenspan
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I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. Ruth Handler
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I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. Christie Hefner
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. Lee Iacocca
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. John Maynard Keynes
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch
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It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. Ron Lewis
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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. Friedrich List
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke
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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. Alfred Marshall
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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. Alfred Marshall
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To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. Merton Miller
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You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. Merton Miller
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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Paula Nelson
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A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. Suze Orman
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Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights. Suze Orman
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Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security. Suze Orman
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Money is the best rule of commerce. William Petty
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I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. Regis Philbin
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Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. George Reisman
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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. Jules Renard
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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. David Ricardo
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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. David Ricardo
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry. Alice Rivlin
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. John D. Rockefeller
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. John D. Rockefeller
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers
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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. Jim Rohn
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We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. Jeffrey Sachs
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We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. Jeffrey Sachs
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. Jean-Paul Sartre
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The economy is a very sensitive organism. Hjalmar Schacht
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. E. F. Schumacher
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All money is a matter of belief. Adam Smith
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. Adam Smith
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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. Martin Cruz Smith
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It's not the having, it's the getting. Charles Spurgeon
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. Saint Stephen
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. William Temple
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump
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Poverty is unnecessary. Muhammad Yunus
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. Muhammad Yunus
