179 Quotes Regarding Finance


It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn

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.
Will Rogers

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump

Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Milton Friedman

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Honore de Balzac

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.
John Locke

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Bo Bennett

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller

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.
Adam Smith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith