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Quotes About Finance

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
~ Warren Buffett
You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.
~ John Hope Bryant
I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
~ Grace Kelly
The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.
~ T. Harv Eker
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
~ J. Paul Getty
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.
~ Murray Walker
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
~ Warren Buffett
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
~ Donald Trump
This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
~ David Bach
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
~ Laurence J. Peter
The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.
~ Robert Gilpin
I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.
~ Richard Branson
The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You know that with bankers nothing but a written document will be valid.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence
~ Allen Ginsberg
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
~ Alton Brown
MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
~ Ambrose Bierce
INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
~ Joe Biden
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
~ Joe E. Lewis
We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
~ Joe Manchin