Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

finance

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

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

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

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

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

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

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. 5 more views from Merton Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes from Adam Smith

It's not the having, it's the getting. 9 other wisdom & wit from Charles Spurgeon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 other sayings from John Locke

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 quotes from William Feather

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

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

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

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

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. 7 quotes 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 quotes from Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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 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