Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

finance

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. 25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. 5 views from Merton Miller

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics. 5 views from Merton Miller

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. 5 quotes from Merton Miller

Finance, like time, devours its own children. 53 more thoughts from Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. 5 wisdom & wit from Merton Miller

All money is a matter of belief. 9 views from Adam Smith

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. 9 other sayings from Adam Smith

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. 10 views from John Maynard Keynes

It's not the having, it's the getting. 9 quotes from Charles Spurgeon

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. 4 more sayings from Robert Graves

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. 10 other quotes from John D. Rockefeller

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 2 quotes from Alfred Marshall

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. 10 thoughts from John D. Rockefeller

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. 15 sayings from John Locke

I made my money by selling too soon. 12 quotes from Bernard Baruch

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. 22 thoughts from William Feather

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. 2 other quotes from E. F. Schumacher

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. 3 sayings from Mario Puzo

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. 6 other quotes from William Temple

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. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. 4 other quotes from Clarence Day

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. 7 thoughts from Joseph Wood Krutch

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. 13 thoughts from Andrew Carnegie

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. 13 quotes from Andrew Carnegie

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. 12 sayings from J. Paul Getty

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. 6 other quotes from Jules Renard

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. 12 thoughts from John Barrymore

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow. 11 thoughts from Henrik Ibsen