Finance Quotes

"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

"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."

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."

"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."

"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."

"We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back."

"We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different."

"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."

"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."

"You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever."