1. A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. - William Feather
2. 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
3. I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence. - Daymond John
4. My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight. - Rod Stewart
5. We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. - Evan Davis
6. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. - Dick Cavett
7. Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. - E. F. Schumacher
8. The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. - Ben Bernanke
9. Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. - Ludwig von Mises
10. 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
11. There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. - David Ricardo
12. The job of the Central Bank is to worry. - Alice Rivlin
13. Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. - Muhammad Yunus
14. Poverty is unnecessary. - Muhammad Yunus
15. Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. - James Buchan
16. Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. - Scott Cook
17. Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. - Joseph Wood Krutch
18. Wall Street has too much wealth and political power. - Charlie Munger
19. There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking. - Charlie Munger
20. We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. - Guy Laliberte
21. I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. - Ruth Handler
22. Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. - Alfred Marshall
23. 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
24. Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others. - Leif Garrett
25. Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. - Maria Bartiromo
26. Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control. - Ryan Holmes
27. My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge. - Randy Quaid
28. For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. - Mark Skousen
29. 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
30. The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. - T. Harv Eker
31. Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. - Ron Lewis
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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. - Jeffrey Sachs
35. Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances. - Alexa Von Tobel
36. I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. - Regis Philbin
37. People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. - Walter Annenberg
38. Money is the best rule of commerce. - William Petty
39. My adversary is the world of finance. - Francois Hollande
40. Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time. - Cliff Richard
41. 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
42. When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker. - Marc Faber
43. A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well. - Natalia Kills
44. Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. - George Reisman
45. The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. - Irving Fisher
46. This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. - Artur Davis
47. The economy is a very sensitive organism. - Hjalmar Schacht
48. A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. - Ruben Hinojosa
49. We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. - Tom Daschle
50. To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. - Merton Miller
51. You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. - Merton Miller
52. 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
53. The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance. - Justin Welby
54. We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances. - Andy Williams
55. I understand that finance can be very complex. - Kevin Harrington
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