Category: Finance Quotes & SayingsPage 10 of 12

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

surplus wealth

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

big score in finance

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

financial crises

My adversary is the world of finance.

world of finance

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

strock broker

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

capital wealth

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

all the economists

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

addiction to money

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

meet somebody

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

happy without money

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

success vs failure

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.

price rises falls

You don’t want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can’t enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

mortgage payment

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

value of labour

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.

trucking

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.

gold silver commodities

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

money motivation

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

way to become rich