Money & Finance: Money Quotes

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"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

"I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians"

Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher

Henry Hazlitt

"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent"

David Ricardo, Economist

"If the quantity of labour, realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it"

David Ricardo, Economist

"If nothing else, I have money"

Bjork, Musician

"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

Gro Harlem Brundtland

"Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

Lucas Papademos

"So there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers"

David Korten, Activist

"What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

Arthur Laffer

"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods"

Robert Reich, Economist

"When money comes into play, then that's all it's about, wanting money, who's making the most, who can get the most, me, me, me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"The income effects in an economy always sum to zero"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

Arthur Laffer

"The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?"

Karl Rove, Politician

"I think everyday people on the street, who have never been affiliated with the Tea Party movement, are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have"

Kristi Noem, Politician

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed"

Ron Kind, Politician

"I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79"

Barbara Castle, Politician

Barbara Castle

"Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"Money has no moral opinions"

Abraham Polonsky, Director

"The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment"

Vince Cable, Politician

"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people"

Richard McKenna, Writer

"It's all about the money"

Joseph Jackson, Businessman

"I think everything depends on money"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

Alan Bean

"The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States, it should help us adjust to the development of China"

Laurent Fabius, Statesman

"You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs"

Don Young, Politician

"As a consequence, while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school, we were constantly conscious of being of modest means"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"A healthy economy is a foundation for a healthy future"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"When a new source of taxation is found, it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

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