For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire on finance
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, some things are not different. Jeffrey Sachs on finance
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch on finance
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 bank. This is a shame. Muhammad Yunus on finance
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. Saint Stephen on finance
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes on finance
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. Greer Garson on finance
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. Jules Renard on finance
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 on finance
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. Christie Hefner on finance
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 on finance
I made my money by selling too soon. Bernard Baruch on finance
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 on finance
I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. Regis Philbin on finance
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. William Temple on finance
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 on finance
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 on finance
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. Scott Cook on finance
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 on finance