179 Quotes Regarding Finance


Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Alan Greenspan

It's not the having, it's the getting.
Charles Spurgeon

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
William Feather

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Mason Cooley

All money is a matter of belief.
Adam Smith

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
Lee Iacocca

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Suze Orman

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire

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

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch

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

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
Saint Stephen

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes

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