Quote 166 | Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. |
Quote 4921 | It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. |
Quote 7652 | Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security. |
Quote 7886 | Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. |
Quote 8018 | I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. |
Quote 8120 | A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. |
Quote 8241 | As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. |
Quote 8381 | 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... |
Quote 8421 | I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. |
Quote 8440 | I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. |
Quote 8583 | 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. |
Quote 8668 | Money is to my social existence what health is to my body. |
Quote 8719 | We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of pro... |
Quote 8726 | Inflation is taxation without legislation.
- Milton Friedman |
Quote 8772 | We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. |
Quote 8854 | As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. |
Quote 8871 | Poverty is unnecessary.
- Muhammad Yunus |
Quote 8905 | 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. |
Quote 8927 | Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. |
Quote 9033 | 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 ... |
Quote 9039 | Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. |
Quote 9079 | The economy is a very sensitive organism.
- Hjalmar Schacht |
Quote 9084 | Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. |
Quote 9190 | 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'... |
Quote 9389 | Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. |
Quote 9393 | Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. |
Quote 9420 | The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. |
Quote 9435 | The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. |
Quote 9743 | To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. |
Quote 9744 | Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. |
Quote 9989 | Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. |
Quote 10019 | We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. |
Quote 10048 | I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. |
Quote 10111 | 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. |
Quote 10222 | 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 chan... |
Quote 10237 | Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. |
Quote 10330 | I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. |
Quote 10398 | 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, t... |
Quote 10636 | Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. |
Quote 10752 | 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 ... |
Quote 11061 | 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... |
Quote 11089 | Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. |
Quote 11180 | All money is a matter of belief.
- Clarence Day |
Quote 11197 | It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the c... |
Quote 11545 | Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity o... |
Quote 11627 | Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. |
Quote 11654 | It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but ... |
Quote 11901 | Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. |
Quote 11967 | 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 we... |
Quote 11987 | One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. |
Quote 12034 | Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. |
Quote 12302 | Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights. |
Quote 12389 | I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. |
Quote 12515 | The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
- Alice Rivlin |
Quote 12570 | It's not the having, it's the getting. |
Quote 12622 | You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. |
Quote 12628 | The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, ... |
Quote 12702 | Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. |
Quote 12706 | Money is the best rule of commerce.
- William Petty |
Quote 13091 | The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. |
Quote 13361 | 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... |
Quote 13375 | There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. |
Quote 13568 | Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. |
Quote 13624 | For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. |
Quote 13880 | The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. |
Quote 13895 | The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. |
Quote 13964 | I made my money by selling too soon.
- Jules Renard |