Finance Quotes

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

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 c…

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

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.

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 pros…

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

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

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.

Poverty is unnecessary.

I made my money by selling too soon.

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 equi…

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

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.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

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.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

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 ba…

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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, so…

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.