Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

finance

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

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

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

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

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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

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

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

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.

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

All money is a matter of belief.

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

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

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

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

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

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.

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

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

I made my money by selling too soon.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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

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

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

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

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.

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