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