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

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

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

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 on finance

The economy is a very sensitive organism.
Hjalmar Schacht on finance

Money is the best rule of commerce.
William Petty on finance

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 on finance

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

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
Merton Miller on finance

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
Irving Fisher on finance

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
Friedrich List on finance

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.
Ruth Handler on finance

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
Barbara Feldon on finance

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
Alice Rivlin on finance

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
George Reisman on finance

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
Martin Cruz Smith on finance

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis on finance

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton on finance

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
Hillary Clinton on finance

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