Finance Quotes
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"Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this."
"If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent."
"Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one."
"The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them"
"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."
"Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who'are crying for the place where you are today"
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."
"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."
"A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
"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."
"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."
"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security."
"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."
"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
"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."
"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute."
"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."
"All money is a matter of belief."
"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health."
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
"We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back."
"Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights."
"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation."
"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."
"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."
"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."
"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."
"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries."
"The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face."
"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."
"I made my money by selling too soon."
"Poverty is unnecessary."
"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."
"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful."
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
"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."
"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."
"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
"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."
"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility."
"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
"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."
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