183 private quotes tagged finance

“Saving is another form of earning.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.” — Albert Einstein

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

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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” — Albert Camus

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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

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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

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“It's not the having, it's the getting.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“The biggest thing in making money is time. You don't have to be particularly smart, you just have to be patient.” — Warren Buffett

Source:Becoming Warren Buffett

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

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“Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.” — The Millionaire Next Door

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“There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.” — David Ricardo

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“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.” — Mason Cooley

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“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.” — Lee Iacocca

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“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

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“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.” — Henry Ford

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“Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.” — William J. Clinton

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“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.” — Angela Merkel

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“I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.” — Rick Santorum

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“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“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.” — John Locke

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“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” — Milton Friedman

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