Sunday, March 18, 2012 – The World of Finance
Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). ~ Edgar R. Fiedler
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. ~ Laurence J. Peter
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
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
All money is a matter of belief. ~ Adam Smith
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
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. ~ Charles Baudelaire
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. ~ Honore de Balzac
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. ~ Jules Renard
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~ Albert Camus
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
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ~ Andrew Carnegie
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ~ John Maynard Keynes
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. ~ Andrew Carnegie
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. ~ John D. Rockefeller
There can be no rise in the value of labor without a fall of profits. ~ David Ricardo
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. ~ Mario Puzo
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. ~ Henrik Ibsen
What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. ~ Robert Graves
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~ Woody Allen
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~ Gloria Steinem
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~ Errol Flynn
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~ Mark Twain
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~ Louis Agassiz
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ~ Robert Graves
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~ John Wesley
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of ~ Pablo Picasso
This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~ Douglas Adams
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Mammon, n.: The god of the world’s leading religion. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~ Sam Ewing
Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~ Max Amsterdam
I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~ Joe Louis
Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money. ~ Satchel Paige
It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~ Groucho Marx
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~ Aristotle Onassis
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale. ~ Zig Ziglar
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. ~ Amory Lovins
Money is nothing more than arrogance on paper. ~ Hunter Brinkmeier
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~ Oscar Wilde
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ~ Robert W. Sarnoff
I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse. ~ Clinton Jones
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. ~ Michael Pritchard
I told the Inland Revenue I didn’t owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. ~ Ken Dodd
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. ~ John Paul Getty
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ~ Jonathan Glancey
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde
Money is just the poor man’s credit card. ~ Marshall McLuhan
I’m not a paranoid derranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire. ~ Howard Hughes
It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. ~ W. C. Fields
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. ~ Joseph Addison
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. ~ William Jennings Bryan
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy. ~ Spike Milligan
I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need if I die by four o’clock this afternoon. ~ Henry Youngman
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