Finance Quotes - Page 2

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

  Merton Miller

  Hero, Forever, Needs

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• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

  Honore de Balzac

  Time, Money, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Body, Social

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• A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

  Bernard Baruch

  Business, Future, Men

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Eggs, Vaccines, Business Success

  "James Watt".

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• When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

  Mae West

  Money, Wages, Remember

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• FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Discovery, America

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Atheism, Can Do, Depends

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”

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  A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

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

  Donald Trump

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.48, Random House

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

  John Barrymore

  Attachment, Vacuums, Debt

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wealth, Prosperity, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Depression, Different, World

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

  William Feather

  Funny, Thinking, Astute

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• The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Success, Money

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 29, 2015

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• Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

  David Ricardo

  Gold, Arbitrary, Scarcity

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.263

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• I made my money by selling too soon.

  Bernard Baruch

  Business, Selling, Made

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• Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

  Thomas Carper

  Years, Sea, Dollars

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• Poverty is unnecessary.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Poverty, Unnecessary

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Race, Literature, Members

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• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Doe

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• Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

  Vanna Bonta

  Cash, Checks

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• I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

  Ruth Handler

  Financial, Paid

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• Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Home

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• Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

  Suze Orman

  Dark, Light, People

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