Famous Finance Quotes

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

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"All money is a matter of belief"

Adam Smith, Economist

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"I made my money by selling too soon"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"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, Economist

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

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

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"The economy is a very sensitive organism"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

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

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

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

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society"

Ron Lewis, Politician

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

Suze Orman, Author

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

Suze Orman, Author

"We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"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, Economist

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

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"Inflation is taxation without legislation"

Milton Friedman, Economist

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

Milton Friedman, Economist

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

William Temple

"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money"

Martin Cruz Smith, Writer

"I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor"

Barbara Feldon, Actress

"It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power"

Friedrich List, Economist

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

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"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"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

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

Merton Miller, Economist

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

Alan Greenspan, Economist

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

Clarence Day, Author

"Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work"

Paula Nelson

"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people"

Jacques Delors, Economist

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

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"Money is the best rule of commerce"

William Petty, Economist

"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes"

Alfred Marshall, Economist

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

Alfred Marshall, Economist