183 private quotes tagged finance

“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

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“I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.” — Jules Renard

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“The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.” — Mark Cuban

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“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.” — Christie Hefner

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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

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“I made my money by selling too soon.” — Bernard Baruch

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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus

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“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

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“The economy is a very sensitive organism.” — Hjalmar Schacht

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“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.” — William Temple

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“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

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“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

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“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.” — Alfred Marshall

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“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

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“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.” — E. F. Schumacher

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“Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.” — Alan Greenspan

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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

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“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

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“Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.” — Scott Cook

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“Money is the best rule of commerce.” — William Petty

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“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.” — Merton Miller

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“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.” — Jim Rohn

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“The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.” — Irving Fisher

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“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.” — Russell Baker

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