Instructive Quotes About Finance

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.

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

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

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

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

I made my money by selling too soon.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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

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.

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

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

All money is a matter of belief.

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

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

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.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

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

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

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

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.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

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.