“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
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finance
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Voices on finance
“Saving is another form of earning.”
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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.”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”
“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.”
“One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.”
“It's not the having, it's the getting.”
“Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
“The biggest thing in making money is time. You don't have to be particularly smart, you just have to be patient.”
Becoming Warren Buffett
“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.”
“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.”
“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.”
“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
“There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.”
“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.”
“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.”
“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.”