Finance Quotes

That City of yours is a morbid excrescence. Wall Street is a morbid excrescence. Plainly it's a thin...

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for i...

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or runn...

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec...

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I ...

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was anothe...

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in...

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most power...

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the at...

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It w...

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves pai...

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or ...

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with expert...

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are ...

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of...

Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely s...

When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands ove...

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you...

Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Righ...

SHIT, OR GET OFF THE POT

Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, w...

...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream econ...

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy ...

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious ...

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think abou...

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, an...

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversatio...

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... a...

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballe...

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - ...

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial ...

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtract...

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its...

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...