finance
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
4 more quotes from Robert Graves
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
2 other thoughts from Alfred Marshall
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
10 quotes from John D. Rockefeller
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
10 other thoughts from John D. Rockefeller
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
22 views from William Feather
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.
15 other quotes from John Locke
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
2 more sayings from E. F. Schumacher
I made my money by selling too soon.
12 other quotes from Bernard Baruch
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
6 more quotes from William Temple
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
3 quotes from Mario Puzo
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
13 wisdom & wit from Andrew Carnegie
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
13 quotes from Andrew Carnegie
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
7 quotes from Joseph Wood Krutch
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
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.
57 more quotes from Will Rogers
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
4 quotes from Clarence Day
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
12 quotes from J. Paul Getty
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
6 quotes from Jules Renard
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
12 more views from John Barrymore
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.
11 thoughts from Henrik Ibsen
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
25 views from Charles Baudelaire
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
5 other quotes from Merton Miller
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
53 more wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
53 sayings from Honore de Balzac
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
5 wisdom & wit from Merton Miller
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
5 wisdom & wit from Merton Miller
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
5 wisdom & wit from Merton Miller
It's not the having, it's the getting.
9 other wisdom & wit from Charles Spurgeon
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes
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.
9 other wisdom & wit from Adam Smith
All money is a matter of belief.
9 quotes from Adam Smith