finance
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 quotes 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
I made my money by selling too soon.
12 more quotes from Bernard Baruch
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
2 sayings from E. F. Schumacher
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
6 other sayings from William Temple
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
3 other wisdom & wit from Mario Puzo
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
4 quotes from Clarence Day
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
13 thoughts from Andrew Carnegie
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
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
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
7 more quotes from Joseph Wood Krutch
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
12 views 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 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
6 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from John Barrymore
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.
11 other thoughts from Henrik Ibsen
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
25 views from Charles Baudelaire
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
5 quotes from Merton Miller
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
5 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 wisdom & wit from Merton Miller
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
5 wisdom & wit from Merton Miller
It's not the having, it's the getting.
9 wisdom & wit from Charles Spurgeon
All money is a matter of belief.
9 more thoughts 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 more quotes from Adam Smith
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
10 wisdom & wit from John Maynard Keynes
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
10 other wisdom & wit from John D. Rockefeller
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
2 other thoughts from Alfred Marshall
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
4 quotes from Robert Graves
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
10 thoughts from John D. Rockefeller