179 Quotes Regarding Finance


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

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.
Mark Cuban

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

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.
Jacques Delors

I made my money by selling too soon.
Bernard Baruch

Poverty is unnecessary.
Muhammad Yunus

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.
Ron Lewis

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

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

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.
Jeffrey Sachs

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.
Martin Feldstein

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

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.
David Ricardo

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

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

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

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.
Alfred Marshall

The economy is a very sensitive organism.
Hjalmar Schacht

Money is the best rule of commerce.
William Petty

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
Thomas Carper