Finance Quotes

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Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

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

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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.

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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.

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

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

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

Finance is a slave's word.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.